| GOLDENHORDE | The 13th-century Kipchat Khanate established in the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire which was initially ruled by Batu Khan, Genghis Khan's grandson (6,5) |
| GENGHIS | Leader of the Mongol empire which stretched from China to Europe, ... Khan |
| GURKHA | Nepalese soldier found in Uigur Khanate |
| KUBLAIKHAN | Khagan of the Mongol Empire; founder of the Yuan dynasty in China |
| TEMUJIN | Founder of the Mongol empire, who adopted the name Genghis Khan (said to mean 'ruler of all') in 1206 (7) |
| SALEM | Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River. |
| KHAN | Genghis -; born Temujin in 1162, the founder of the Mongol Empire (4) |
| KARAKORUM | City founded by Genghis Khan in 1220; subsequently capital of the Mongol Empire (9) |
| MCC | VI years before the advent of the Mongol Empire |
| GENGHISKHAN | The founder, ruler and emperor of the Mongol Empire (7,4) |
| MUSKELLUNGE | Fish like Husky the Muskie, the iconic giant fish statue in the northwestern Ontario city of Kenora |
| HORDE | Golden ___ (part of the Mongol Empire) |
| KHANATE | Political subdivision of the Mongol empire |
| GOBI | Much of the Mongol Empire |
| MICRONESIA | Sub-region in the northwestern part of Oceania comprising thousands of small islands (10) |
| SAMARKAND | One of Uzbekistan's largest cities; the capital of Tamerlane's Mongol empire in the 14th century (9) |
| ARABIAN | Sea in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean (7) |
| BYZANTINE | Name for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms; it finally fell to Ottoman Turkish forces in 1453. |
| OTTOMANS | Members of a Turkish empire which in the 16th century attacked Pollensa, Andratx, Soller and other coastal towns in Mallorca (8) |
| BOHEMIA | A kingdom of the Holy Roman Empire which later formed part of the Czech Republic (7) |
