<previous Not long before the birth of Giotto, Genghis Khan's grandsons continued their expanding of the Mongol empire. In 1258 the Abbasid caliphate of Persia and Irak fell. They continued to Syria and Palestine before being defeated in Egypt. In 1260, Kublai Khan is elected the Great Khan of an empire spanning from the Black Sea to the Pacific.
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