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and ended two generations later with the death of Genghis Khan\’s grandson
Kublai Khan. The Mongols were not numerous enough to do all of their conquering alone
who had been later to adopt the horse culture of the Asiatic plains. Their homeland was around the southern end of Lake Baikal
and they were hunters and fishermen before they became plainsmen. The earliest mention of them in Chinese history occurs in the seventh century A.D.