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CKF
is working with partner groups to
promote both traditional Mongolian
educational programs for the US-based
Mongolian community and various education
curriculum reform projects in Mongolia:
Steppe Link of Ulaanbaatar
and CKF are cooperating on finding
J-1 training programs for Mongolian
professionals in the fields of law,
banking, sciences, engineering, computers,
business, and journalism. These 3-18
month placements are open to Mongols
25-40 yrs. old. For more information
contact steppelink@yahoo.com
Civics and ESL Education
for Mongolian Secondary Schools project
together with the Spring Institute
for Intercultural Learning of Denver,
Colorado as well as various Mongolian
educational non-profits, Mongol public
and private schools, and the Ministry
of Education, promotes the introduction
of civics education in Mongolian schools
through the existing curriculum and
in the ESL programs. CKF also is involved
in developing nomadic and rural education
reforms, distance learning, and intensive
English language study programs for
targeted adults.
Mongolian Community of Washington,
DC. (MCWDC) CKF financially
supports the various community and
children’s activities sponsored
each year by the Mongols living around
Washington, DC. CFK and MCWDC are
exploring developing Mongolian language
afterschool programs in cities in
the U.S. to serve various Mongol resident
communities. click
here
Children’s Book Drive
coordinated with MCWDC to collect
and send used and new children’s
books for grades one through high
school to rural Mongolian school libraries.
The first partnering school library
is in Nalaikh. click
here
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| First
Shipment of Books arrived in UB |
The Chinggis
Khan Foundation has launched two book
drives for Mongolia in 2006. One book
drive is to collect college texts
and research books in English on Mongol
Studies, History, and Cultural Anthropology
for Mongolian National University.
The second book drive is to gather
children’s books for Mongol
children in rural schools. The first
book shipment arrived in Mongolia
in May through the sponsorship of
Odonchir Net Shipping Company.
The children’s books were given
by members of the Washington DC Area
Mongolian Community Association (WAMCA)
and the families of the Mongolian
Embassy during the lunar new year’s
celebrations. A total of 84 children
books appropriate for kindergarten
to high school were given to the local
public school in Nalaikh.
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Black Banner in War Time
Grand Migration
Surrender of Forest Tribes
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Q:
Did Chinggis conquered all of the areas
of Mongol empire?
A:
No. He began the conquests, and his sons
and grandsons completed them.
Contrary to popular belief, Chinggis Khan
didn’t conquer the whole Mongol Empire.
At the time of his death, the Mongol empire
stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Sea
of Japan. China and Russia were conquered
only in part. The empire’s expansion
continued for 2 generations after Chinggis’
death in 1227. Indeed, under his son and
successor, Ogedei Khan, the speed of expansion
reached its peak. Mongol armies pushed into
Persia to finish off the remnants of the
Central Asian Khwarezmids. Under Chinggis’
grandson Khubilai, they moved against the
Southern Song Dynasty of China, but the
conquest of China was not completed until
1279. Under Khubilai, who established the
Yuan Dynasty in China, Mongols conquered
Korea and attempted two unsuccessful invasions
of Japan, three incursions into Vietnam,
and failed in their aim to use their fleet
to expand into Indonesia. The Yuan Dynasty
ended in 1368 when the Ming Chinese drove
the Mongols back onto their Mongolian homeland
plateau.
In the late 1230s the Mongols under Batu
Khan, a grandson of Chinggis, attacked Russia
and Central Europe. He reduced Russian principalities
to vassalage, establishing a 300 year “Golden
Horde” rule of that nation. In 1241
Mongols under the general Subutai and Batu
Khan defeated Polish-German armies at the
battle of Legnica and Hungarian armies at
Mohi. During the 1250s Chinggis’ grandson
Hulegu Khan, operating from the Mongol base
in Persia, destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate
in Baghdad led by the cult of the Assassins.
He then turned against the Mamluk Dynasty
of Egypt, but was defeated in the battle
of Ayn Jalut, near Nazareth. This stopped
the Mongol advance into the Middle East
and Mediterranean.
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