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CHAPTER 13 Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200?1500 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . The Rise of the Mongols, 1200?1260 A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Nomadism in Central and Inner Asia 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Nomadic groups depended on scarce water and pasture resources; in times of scarcity, conflicts occurred, resulting in the extermination of smaller groups and in the formation of alliances and out-migration. Around the year 1000 the lands inhabited by the Mongols experienced unusually dry weather with its attendant effects on the availability of resources and pressures on the nomadic Mongol tribes.
