Warm, wet weather may have helped Genghis Khan rule
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Warming and drought may force modern Mongolians from their land, but unusually wet weather helped the rise of the Mongolian empire in the 1200s, a new study suggests.
Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute, Columbia Univ.