A shorter path for readers who want to know what the terms carry before they read the narratives: the title every ruler bore and how this work writes it, the second title of the western wing, the ruling family's name, and the modern debate about where all of them came from.
- Khan (Khagan) The title, its forms, its history, and the ranks around it.
- Yabgu The title of the west, and the operator's position on where it came from.
- Ashina The name of the house and the three accounts of its origin.
- The Turkic ethnogenesis debate Every continuity claim as a position, with its holder and its grounds.