The main force, led by Batu, a grandson of the legendary Genghis Khan, retreated to the Black Sea steppe.
The study showed an initial advance in the timing of the growing season or its 'phenology' for both the meadow and steppe for the first 15 years.
And find it they did, in the middle of the bare steppe of the North-East, at a place called Daqing. The field turned out to be one of the world's biggest, with over 14 billion barrels of reserves.
Khara Khorum began to fade, although the Khans periodically returned to the city on the steppe.
This is the time of year when blasts of Arctic air start sweeping across Mongolia's steppe, ushering in the long, hard winter.
A drop of 2.0 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in average annual air temperature can shorten the growing season for steppe grasses, which are critical for livestock, by up to 40 days.
On seeing him, Enkidu, the gazelles ran off the wild beasts of the steppe drew away from his body.
The family spent a month in Mongolia in 2007, riding across the steppe towards a sacred lake, then on to see the country's most renowned shaman, an old man called Ghoste who lives in a tepee.
The trip will take it over mountain ranges, around deserts and across the vast Russian steppe.
Nazarbayev in Astana, the gleaming city that he ordered built in the 1990s on the blank plane of the northern steppe, its skyline melding folk mysticism with science fiction.
I never believe that I can go with a mouse who can speak, and travel on the steppe, that's not my eager.
Its 681 pages of text are at times as grueling as a forced march across the Mongolian steppe.
One of the highest countries in the world, Mongolia is a land of harsh extremes—snowy mountains, wide expanses of grassy steppe, and windswept desert.
Amid grey mounds of dusty rocks we were able to see Egyptian vultures and steppe eagles.
Please try the milk tea of steppe.
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