High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles gedei (also Ogodei, Mongolian: ᠦᠭᠦᠳᠡᠢ, also gedei Khan in non-Mongolian sources) (c. 1186 - December 11, 1241) was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan (Khagan) of the Mongol Empire by succeeding his father. He continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun, and was a world figure when the Mongol Empire reached its farthest extent west...