Qocho

Karakhoja (866 – 1209) of the Qocho Uighurs in the oases along the northern rim of the Tarim Basin.

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The Qocho Uighurs along the northern rim of the Tarim Basin, however, did submit peacefully to the Chinggis Khan in 1209.

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He also extended his suzerainty over the Gansu Corridor and the northern Tarim Basin, where the Yellow Yugurs and Qocho

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The Qocho Uighurs became highly urbanized in the northern oases of the Tarim Basin.

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It is unclear if the religious cooperation of the Tsongka Tibetans with the Uighurs was exclusively with their immediate neighbors to the north, the Yellow Yugurs, or also with the Qocho Uighurs further to the west.

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They would then control an alternative trade route to that which passed through the northern Tarim under Qocho rule and would profit enormously, both financially and in heightened prestige.

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In 1096, for example, the Qocho ruler presented the Northern Song emperor with a jade Buddha.

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They would not need to launch a military campaign to win ascendency over Qocho, but could supplant them economically instead by cutting them out of the Silk Route trade.

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Buddhism continued strongly in the Qocho Uighur realm as well.

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The rulers of the two major kingdoms constituted by Uighur refugees, the Qocho Uighurs in the northern Tarim Basin and the Yellow Yugurs in the Gansu

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