Had Ogodai not died, it is possible that the Mongols would have overrun Europe. By this time the Mongol empire had become so vast that although the eastern part remained the homeland, great segments came under the rule, more or less independent- and not without quarrels and clashes of ...
In many cases, the body would then be left where they fell as a form of open air burial, in essence giving back to the earth. These are only a few examples of inventive bloodless executions in the totality of the history of the Mongol Empire. It isn’t hard to find more. Mongolian ...
Renegade Editor’s Note: While I am no fan of the Roman Empire, especially given the Celtic blood running through my veins, it is important to understand why it fell. The Roman Empire was once upon a time the most fearsome and mighty power in the world, but it was eventually felled by...
Which country is heir to the Khmer Empire? What happened to the Khmer Empire? The Khmer Empire flourished in what is now What did the Khmer Empire trade? How did the Khmer Empire maintain power? What land fell under the Khmer Empire?
All of these countries are in the same general region as Mongolia, and they are home to some of the same nomadic tribes who produce this material on the Mongol Steppes. While the British Empire attempted to facilitate camel wool production in practically all of its colonies, the only places...
Greeks, Romans, Huns, and Bulgars invaded the area, which in the 13th century became part of the Mongol empire. An independent Moldovan state emerged briefly in the 14th century under celebrated leader Stefan the Great but subsequently fell under Ottoman Turkish...
What he lacked in surgical precision, he made up for with attitude and a blur of his arms, doing his best to suggest the sound of thousands of thundering hooves galloping across the dusty plains of the Mongol empire just before the one-minute mark, the highlight not only of the song, ...
The early Turkic Khaganates (from 552 to 657) Tang and Tibetan Empires (from 657 to 744) Uyghur Khaganate (from 744 to 840) Kara-Khanids (from 840 to 1124) Western Liao (Qara-Khitai) (from 1124 to 1218) Great Mongol Empire and Chagataids (from 1218 to 1340) Moghulistan, Timurids...
The Great Wall of China was designed to perform the most basic defensive war principle: Keep the good guys in and the bad guys out. While China's was not the first wall built to serve this purpose (Denmark, Korea and the Roman Empire all built walls prior), the Great Wall is arguably...
The Naimans' defeat left Genghis Khan as the sole ruler of the Mongol steppe – all the prominent confederations fell or united under his Mongol confederation. Who killed Kublai Khan? Kublaidied of natural causesin 1294 at the age of 79 or 80 - an extremely old age for often hard-living...