Mingghan

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The mingghan (Uzbek: Minghan, Halh Mongolian : мянгат, romanized: Myangat) was a social-military unit of 1000 households created by Genghis Khan. From this group could be recruited a regiment of 1000 men. It is part of the ancient method of organization developed by Eurasian nomads based on the decimal system. [1] A tumen , which included 10,000 households and soldiers, [2] was the largest group and it was divided into ten mingghan. [1] A mingghan was made up of 10 jaghuns [2] or 100 arbans. [3] An account cited that once he becomes a guard, a mingghan commander's son has to bring a younger brother and 10 other men to serve with him. [4]

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  1. 1 2 Lusted, Marcia Amidon (2017). Genghis Khan and the Building of the Mongol Empire. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. p. 32. ISBN   9781499463521.
  2. 1 2 Behnke, Alison (2008). The Conquests of Genghis Khan. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books. p. 61. ISBN   9780822575191.
  3. ↑ Franke, Herbert, Denis Twitchett and John King Fairbank. (1994) The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 710–1368. Cambridge University Press. pp.345.
  4. ↑ Hartog, Leo De (2004). Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks. pp.  45. ISBN   1860649726.

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