ocr: Hulagu, lord of the Ilkhanate, and Berke, who bad tollowed his brother Batu as ruler of the Golden Horde, warred over possession of the: fine grasslands of Azerbaijan. Absorbed, in their own: affairs, the western powerful that thej Japa- chieftains paid only nominal homage to far-off Kublai. And soon their nese called it kamikaze, kin who ruled in Central Asin began to act independently as well. The evety-prince-ior-himselr greed of Genghis's: sons and grandsons or divine wind. Along had already been exposed in the succession struggles; personal power. and with 4,000 ships, Kublai wealth were: ...
