Mahmud Yalavach was a
Muslim[Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World By Leo De Hartog, pg. 85] administrator in the
Mongol Empire who ruled over
Turkestan
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Known as Turan to the Persians, western Turk ...
as governor and eventually went on to be mayor of Taidu (now
Beijing
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). He was a Khorezmian merchant who served as an administrator and advisor to
Genghis Khan. Somewhere in the 1230s, he devised the census system accounting for the people in the newly formed
Mongol Empire so they could be readily taxed. He went on to simplify the existing tax systems in his creation of two primary tax initiatives: The first was the
poll tax known as the ''qubchir'' and the other was an agricultural tax known as the ''qalan''.
See also
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Society of the Mongol Empire
This article is about the society of the Mongol Empire, with a particular emphasis on the Mongols within it. When the empire was at its largest extent these formed only a tiny proportion of the total population, and in the majority of respects, ...
References
Citations
Sources
* Lane, George. Daily Life in the Mongol Empire. p. 62. 1st ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. US. 2006.
* Christian, David. A History of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia. p. 415. 1st ed. Blackwell Publishing, Cornwall, United Kingdom. 1998.
Mongol Empire people
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