Mongolia is a country in East Pacific Rim. It covers 604,000 square miles ( 1,564,000 sq. Km ), making it a bit smaller in comparison to the state of Alaska. It s borders with both China and Russia. Mongolia has been lived in since the Stone Age, with winding clans crossing the steppes. With the arrival of iron, Mongolia started to take a more important part in some bordering regions. The Mongolians, who would now and then form enormous groupings of winding clans, were then able to pose a threat, or as a minimum an exasperation, to near by Chinese states. In the third century the Mongolian state of Xiongnu formed, making the 1st state in Mongolia. This dominion spread all of the way south to the Great Wall of China, which had been built to help repel Mongolian raiders like these. Seeing this as a threat, the Han dynasty in China attacked, but were repelled and the Mongolians pushed south into Han China, at last causing the Han Emperor to submit to the Mongolians, recognizing their possession of all land north of the Wall and giving them yearly tribute. The Xiongnu would ultimately emigrate west, reaching Europe in the fifth century and achieving infamy as Atilla’s Huns. Groups then rose to power in Mongolia, expanding and consolidating their territory, and seizing parts of northwards China. [Read more...]