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In 1218 the Khara-Khitai state in east Turkistan was absorbed into the empire. A long period of feudal separatism and rivalry for the Khan’s throne began in Mongolia by the early 15th century. The military strength of the Mongols through the Yuan dynasty was that they have been able to mobilize an army of 400,000 warriors . Assuming that an average household consisted of 4 people and just about every adult man was a warrior, it can be estimated that the Mongol population in the Yuan dynasty counted at least 1,600,000 persons. Nevertheless, the quantity of 40 tumens remained only...