Tartars

tar'tarz, or Tatars, a term applied with little discrimination to the inhabitants of the steppe region of eastern Russia and central Asia. It is difficult to distinguish between Tartars, Turks, Mongols, Talmucks, etc. Under Genshis Khan the rule of the Tartars extended from the Chinese coast on the Pacific so far west-ward as to include Poland. Tamerlane or Timur was another great leader of the Tartar origin. The Great Wall of china was built to keep these people out of the fertile valleys of the "flowery Kingdom." See Steppe; Timur; China; Great Wall