500 before Jesus Christ: the early wars.
The peoples inhabiting the region at that time already speak a language of the Turkish-Mongolian family. During the 4th and 5th century before Jesus Christ that these people have started to confront their neighbors to the south (the Chinese). From this period, they invaded the Chinese territory by going door to the Yellow River. They acquired the reputation of being barbaric fierce fighting in the amount sword and the horse. They were repulsed outside China. It was only the first century they were repulsed outside China.
600 - 1160 AD: The Rise of the people Uighurs and turf wars
Before the twelfth century BC many principalities lived isolated from each other without really formal contact and constant. The history of the unification of Mongolian tribes is both a complex and fascinating history. The people Uighurs (leading Uighur writing) have built and developed several cities in Central Asia. One of those, called Kharbalgasun. By taking control of the entire territory of Mongolia, they change the culture war that had prevailed until that time. Mongolian territory thus joined a few hundred years, in a period of relative peace, however. Uighurs domination of the whole of what is now called Mongolia is fit until 840, when they are repelled by Kyrgyz, living in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
Another Mongolian tribe, the Kitani advantage of the field then allowed to dominate both the Manchuria, East of Mongolia and the whole North China, Yellow River. However, another people, living in the west of Mongolia, will face the Xias Kitani which will ultimately be defeated by the Chinese in 1122.
1135-1161 Before the birth of Genghis Khan
The father of Genghis Khan, Yesügeď was at that time, the head of the clan Khiyats, subdivision of the tribe Bordjigins. It is combined with Kereyits, and with his head Toguril, his "sworn brother" ( "Anda"). Yesügeď kidnaps Hö'elün, the wife of a Merk (belonging to the tribe of Olkhunut), who becomes the mother of one who would later become Genghis Khan.
