Map of East Asia from 209 to 200 BC: the Xiongnu under Bagatur from the Ordos to Lake Baikal, the Wuhuan, Dingling and Gekun as their subjects, the campaigns against the Donghu, the Yuezhi and the northern peoples, the Han in China and the siege of Baideng
209–200 BC: Bagatur (Modu Chanyu) kills his father Duman and becomes chanyu. He destroys the king of the Donghu, drives back the Yuezhi, retakes the land Meng Tian had seized as far as Chaona and Fushi, and subjects the Dingling, the Gekun and the other peoples of the north; the Wuhuan pay him tribute. In 200 BC he surrounds the Han emperor Gaozu at Baideng near Pingcheng. Modern map; the roads are drawn, and the borders in the steppe are approximate.
Plate II in the Atlas → © Emre-E Yavuz 2026

Who ruled

And beyond the steppe

  • China Qin Ziying 207 BC–206 BC

Eastern steppe

  • Modu destroys the Donghu after giving them a horse, a consort and nothing else

    Bagatur (Modu Chanyu) · Donghu · Xiongnu

    The Shiji gives no year; it stands between the accession of 209 and the recovery of the Ordos before 200.