He considered it rotten and forbade the use of popular Mongol names, habits, language, and clothing. |
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The small kingdoms in Southern Persia voluntarily accepted Mongol supremacy. |
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After another Mongol intervention in 1273, Goryeo came under even tighter control of the Yuan. |
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Goryeo became a Mongol military base, and several myriarchy commands were established there. |
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Kublai decided to invade Japan, Burma, Vietnam, and Java following the suggestions of some of his Mongol officials. |
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The samurai warriors, following their custom, rode out against the Mongol forces for individual combat but the Mongols held their formation. |
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The Mongol forces did not chase the fleeing Japanese into an area about which they lacked reliable intelligence. |
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Mongol interests in these areas were commercial and tributary relationships. |
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In 1274, Kublai appointed Lian Xixian to investigate abuses of power by Mongol appanage holders in Manchuria. |
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Kublai's seizure of power in 1260 pushed the Mongol Empire into a new direction. |
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He then headed south to Shiraz, a large, flourishing city spared the destruction wrought by Mongol invaders on many more northerly towns. |
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In Baghdad, he found Abu Sa'id, the last Mongol ruler of the unified Ilkhanate, leaving the city and heading north with a large retinue. |
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It is thought that as a result, a rapid increase in the number of war horses and other livestock significantly enhanced Mongol military strength. |
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Known during his childhood as Temujin, Genghis Khan was the son of a Mongol chieftain. |
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The term Mongol became used to refer to all Mongolic Speaking tribes under the control of Genghis Khan. |
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According to Mongol tradition, Genghis Khan was buried in a secret location. |
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Shi Tianze defected to the Mongol Empire's forces upon their invasion of the Jin dynasty. |
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The Kerait were Mongolified Turkic people and considered part of the Mongol nation. |
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As was customary in Mongol military tradition, all princes of Genghis's line had to attend the kurultai to elect a successor. |
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Batu and his western Mongol army withdrew from Central Europe the next year. |
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The Mongol Empire tried to invade Vietnam again in 1284 and 1287 but were defeated both times. |
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Mongol armies across the empire withdrew from their campaigns to once again convene for a new kurultai. |
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The Yuan's influence on the Horde was largely reversed and border clashes between Mongol states resumed. |
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With the death of Ilkhan Abu Said Bahatur in 1335, Mongol rule faltered and Persia fell into political anarchy. |
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Along with the dissolution of the Ilkhanate in Persia, Mongol rulers in China and the Chagatai Khanate were also in turmoil. |
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The plague known as the Black Death, which started in the Mongol dominions and spread to Europe, added to the confusion. |
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The Mongol military organization was simple but effective, based on the decimal system. |
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Forces under the command of the Mongol Empire were trained, organized, and equipped for mobility and speed. |
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Mongol soldiers were more lightly armored than many of the armies they faced but were able to make up for it with maneuverability. |
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Each Mongol warrior would usually travel with multiple horses, allowing him to quickly switch to a fresh mount as needed. |
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In addition, soldiers of the Mongol army functioned independently of supply lines, considerably speeding up army movement. |
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Mongol forces would spread out in a line, surround an entire region, and then drive all of the game within that area together. |
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The success, organization, and mobility of the Mongol armies permitted them to fight on several fronts at once. |
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Cities were destroyed and their inhabitants slaughtered if they defied Mongol orders. |
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The fall of the Mongol Empire in the 14th century led to the collapse of the political, cultural, and economic unity along the Silk Road. |
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Although the religion largely died out after the Tang, it was revived in China following the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. |
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The medieval Mongol rulers of Russia likewise only expected tribute from the Russian states, which continued to govern themselves. |
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During the early 13th century Khwarezmia was invaded by the early Mongol Empire. |
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The Mongol ruler Genghis Khan had the once vibrant cities of Bukhara and Samarkand burned to the ground after besieging them. |
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The fragmentation of the Mongol Empire loosened the political, cultural, and economic unity of the Silk Road. |
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After the fall of the Mongol Empire, the great political powers along the Silk Road became economically and culturally separated. |
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But as the Mongol Empire collapsed, Europeans began to shift away from the idea that Prester John had ever really been a Central Asian king. |
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From 1219 to 1221, under the Khwarezmian Empire, Iran suffered a devastating invasion by the Mongol army of Genghis Khan. |
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Following the fracture of the Mongol Empire in 1256, Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, established the Ilkhanate in Iran. |
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Following the invasion of Mongol tribes from the east and the splintering of their empire, the area came under the rule of the Golden Horde. |
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However some Turkologists argue that Cossacks are descendants of native Cumans of Ukraine, who lived there long ago before the Mongol invasion. |
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A number of Mongol and Turkic peoples occupied the river banks for many centuries. |
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In the 17th century the Dzungar Khanate, formed by the Mongol Oirat people, became Russia's southern neighbor, and controlled the upper Irtysh. |
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Mail armour was commonly used by Mongol armies where it eventually became the armour of choice in India. |
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In 1449, Mongol taishi Esen attacked the Ming Empire and captured the Zhengtong Emperor in Tumu. |
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Some Jurchen guards in Jianzhou and Haixi cooperated with Esen's action, but more were attacked in the Mongol invasion. |
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On the other hand, the Mongol rulers also adopted flexibly to a variety of cultures from many advanced civilizations within the vast empire. |
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Traditional social structure and culture in China underwent immense transform during the Mongol dominance. |
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Throughout the Yuan dynasty, there was some general sentiment among the populace against the Mongol dominance. |
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Other Mongol Khanates in Central Asia continued to exist after the fall of Yuan dynasty in China. |
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In 1449 Esen Tayisi led an Oirat Mongol invasion of northern China which culminated in the capture of the Zhengtong Emperor at Tumu. |
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The Mongol invasions and conquests in the 13th century also resulted in taking numerous captives into slavery. |
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In the 13th century, the Mongol Empire had invaded and conquered most of Asia and Eastern Europe. |
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However, the Mongol invasions of India were successfully repelled by the Delhi Sultanate. |
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It is possible that the Mongol Empire may have expanded into India were it not for the Delhi Sultanate's role in repelling them. |
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The Mongol Empire spread to comprise all of Central Asia and China as well as large parts of Russia, and the Middle East. |
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The advance into Europe continued with Mongol invasions of Poland and Hungary. |
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The Mongol Empire collapsed almost as quickly as it formed and soon the route to the east became more difficult and dangerous. |
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The disease may have travelled along the Silk Road with Mongol armies and traders or it could have come via ship. |
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The Mongol people were plagued by internecine conflict until Genghis Khan unified them and focused their aggression outwards on other peoples. |
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With the brief exception of the Mongol invasions in the 13th century, major nomadic incursions ceased. |
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Georgia remained a leading regional power until its collapse under the Mongol attacks within two decades after Tamar's death. |
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, horse racing and equestrian sports in China was dominated by Mongol influences. |
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In 1257, Hulagu Khan amassed an unusually large army, a significant portion of the Mongol Empire's forces, for the purpose of conquering Baghdad. |
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Some historians believe that the Mongol invasion destroyed much of the irrigation infrastructure that had sustained Mesopotamia for millennia. |
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As Mongol raids continued periodically over the years, the Ming devoted considerable resources to repair and reinforce the walls. |
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It also occurs in Mongolia and Soviet Siberia. It is produced mainly in Nei Mongol, Gansu, and Xinjiang. |
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The remainder are Buryat, Russian, Mongol, Manchu, or of other ethnicities. |
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Mongolian army studied Kongming lanterns from Chinese and used it in Battle of Legnica during Mongol invasion of Poland. |
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During the 13th century CE, the region experienced Mongol invasions, affected areas such as Vietnamese coast, inland Burma and Java. |
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Myinsaing Kingdom became the real ruler of Central Burma and challenged the Mongol rule. |
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This resulted in the second Mongol invasion of Burma in 1300, which was repulsed by Myinsaing. |
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In 1292, The Mongols sent envoys to Singhasari Kingdom in Java to ask for submission to Mongol rule. |
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After Kadiri was defeated, Wijaya turned on his Mongol allies, ambushed their invasion fleet and forced them to immediately leave Java. |
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The Mughal empire, which was descended from the Mongol Khanate, was bested by the upcoming Maratha Confederacy. |
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The Mongol Empire conquered a large part of Asia in the 13th century, an area extending from China to Europe. |
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The state of Kievan Rus' fell during the 13th century in the Mongol invasion. |
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Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages was dominated by the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire. |
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Russia continued to expand southward and eastward into former Mongol lands. |
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With the brief exception of the Mongol invasions, major barbarian incursions ceased. |
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The 13th and 14th centuries, when the Mongol Empire came to power, is often called the Age of the Mongols. |
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The Beyliks did not mint coins in the names of their own leaders while they remained under the suzerainty of the Mongol Ilkhanids. |
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The Soviet scholar Mikhail Tikhomirov calculated that Kievan Rus' on the eve of the Mongol invasion had around 300 urban centres. |
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The Mongol Empire invaded Kievan Rus' in the 13th century, destroying numerous cities including Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, Vladimir and Kiev. |
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Tamerlane established a major empire in the Middle East and Central Asia, in order to revive the Mongol Empire. |
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These medieval developments influenced Chinese geography under the Mongol Empire. |
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Great lengths were taken by the Yongle Emperor to eradicate Mongol culture from China. |
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The Hongwu emperor issued many edicts forbidding Mongol practices and proclaiming his intention to purify China of barbarian influence. |
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He adopted many Yuan military practices, recruited Mongol soldiers, and continued to request Korean concubines and eunuchs. |
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Tianshun proved to be a troubled time and Mongol forces within the Ming military structure continued to be problematic. |
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The Yongle Emperor had been absent since 16 March 1413 for his second Mongol campaign and hadn't returned when the fleet arrived. |
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It also suggests that Zheng He may have had Mongol and Arab ancestry and that he could speak Arabic. |
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In the autumn of 1381, a Ming army invaded and conquered Yunnan, which was then ruled by the Mongol prince Basalawarmi, Prince of Liang. |
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General Fu Youde saw Ma He on a road and approached him in order to inquire about the location of the Mongol pretender. |
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Ma He responded defiantly by saying that the Mongol pretender had jumped into a lake. |
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The Jin dynasty fell after their defeat against the rising Mongol Empire, a steppe confederation that had formerly been a Jurchen vassal. |
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He got into conflicts with the Manchus over the looting of Chinese cities, and managed to alienate most Mongol tribes. |
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The Chahar army was defeated in 1625 and 1628 by the Inner Mongol and Manchu armies due to Ligdan's faulty tactics. |
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Those do not officially count as part of the Mongol ethnicity, but are recognized as ethnic groups of their own. |
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In the autumn 1244, Yisaur concentrated the Mongol forces in the upper Tigris valley where they subjugated the Kurdish province of Akhlat. |
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Hulagu departed with the bulk of his forces, leaving only about 10,000 Mongol horsemen in Syria under Kitbuqa. |
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The border of the Mongol Ilkhanate remained at the Tigris River for the duration of Hulagu's dynasty. |
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In the second half of the 13th century, civil war had erupted in the Mongol Empire. |
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The Golden Horde had been founded by Genghis' son Jochi, following the Mongol invasion of Central Asia. |
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There were therefore already cultural affinities between large segments of the Mongol Horde and the ruling elite of Egypt. |
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In late 1299, the Mongol Ilkhan Mahmud Ghazan, son of Arghun, took his army and crossed the Euphrates river to again invade Syria. |
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After Ghazan's main force withdrew, only about 10,000 horsemen remained in Syria, under the Mongol general Mulay. |
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At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus. |
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He travelled to various places of the Mongol Empire in Asia before his return to Europe. |
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Five weeks later, after the departure from Sudak, he reached the encampment of Batu Khan, Mongol ruler of the Volga River region. |
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He granted his brother Kublai control over Mongol held territories in China. |
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Kublai secured the northeast border in 1259 by installing the hostage prince Wonjong as the ruler of Korea, making it a Mongol tributary state. |
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Kublai's government after 1262 was a compromise between preserving Mongol interests in China and satisfying the demands of his Chinese subjects. |
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Pax Mongolica, Mongol peace, enabled the spread of technologies, commodities, and culture between China and the West. |
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Annam, Burma, and Champa recognized Mongol hegemony and established tributary relations with the Yuan dynasty. |
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The other cultures and peoples in the Mongol World Empire also very much influenced China. |
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In the historiography of Mongolia, it is generally considered to be the continuation of the Mongol Empire. |
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The Mongol Emperors had built large palaces and pavilions, but some still continued to live as nomads at times. |
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The Mongols practiced debt slavery, and by 1290 in all parts of the Mongol Empire commoners were selling their children into slavery. |
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Seeing this as damaging to the Mongol nation, Kublai in 1291 forbade the sale abroad of Mongols. |
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Furthermore, Mongol patronage of Buddhism resulted in a number of monuments of Buddhist art. |
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The Mongols characterized otachi doctors by their use of herbal remedies, which was distinguished from the spiritual cures of Mongol shamanism. |
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The Mongol physician Hu Sihui described the importance of a healthy diet in a 1330 medical treatise. |
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Foreigners from outside the Mongol Empire entirely, such as the Polo family, were everywhere welcomed. |
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His grandfather smeared fat from killed animals onto Kublai's middle finger in accordance with a Mongol tradition. |
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Kublai employed people of other nationalities as well, for he was keen to balance local and imperial interests, Mongol and Turk. |
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Yizhou governor Li Tan revolted against Mongol rule in February 1262, and Kublai ordered his Chancellor Shi Tianze and Shi Shu to attack Li Tan. |
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Kublai reinforced Hulagu with 30,000 young Mongols in order to stabilize the political crises in the western regions of the Mongol Empire. |
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The Khans also sent Nogai Khan to the Balkans to strengthen Mongol influence there. |
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After the Mongol conquest of the Song, the merchants expanded their operations to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. |
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Mongol and Chinese units were organized using the same decimal organization that Genghis Khan used. |
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Despite the military successes, strife continued within the Mongol ranks. |
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In 1271, Kublai renamed the new Mongol regime in China as the Yuan dynasty and sought to sinicize his image as Emperor of China to win the control of the Chinese people. |
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Rather than returning home, Ibn Battuta instead decided to continue on, choosing as his next destination the Ilkhanate, a Mongol Khanate, to the northeast. |
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In November, Edward led a raid on Qaqun, which could have served as a bridgehead to Jerusalem, but both the Mongol invasion and the attack on Qaqun failed. |
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The last Mongol khagan was Ligdan in the early 17th century. |
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Any resistance to Mongol rule was met with massive collective punishment. |
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The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture. |
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In 1236 the Volga Bulgaria was conquered and devastated by the Mongols, but later Mongol demand for tribute increased its fur trade as did the destruction of the Kiev trade. |
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The traditional Mongol family was patriarchal, patrilineal and patrilocal. |
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Later he attended a banquet of the Yuan Mongol administrator of the city named Qurtai, who according to Ibn Battuta, was very fond of the skills of local Chinese conjurers. |
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During the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, the government spent a great deal of money fighting costly wars, and reacted by printing more money, leading to inflation. |
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It was also part of the Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid, and Ottoman empires. |
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In 1889, the site was conclusively identified as the former Mongol capital by Nikolai Yadrintsev, who discovered examples of the Orkhon script during the same expedition. |
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This angered Hulagu, and, consistent with Mongol strategy of discouraging resistance, he besieged Baghdad, sacked the city and massacred many of the inhabitants. |
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Mongol warrior on horseback, preparing a mounted archery shot. |
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Acknowledging the Mongol control established in the Ordos Desert, the wall followed the desert's southern edge instead of incorporating the bend of the Yellow River. |
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In 1304 the three western khanates briefly accepted the nominal suzerainty of the Yuan dynasty, but in 1368 the Han Chinese Ming dynasty took over the Mongol capital. |
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Following the downfall of their Mongol masters, the loyal vassal, the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, received escalating threats from the Mamluks and were eventually overrun. |
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As the empire grew, any merchants or ambassadors with proper documentation and authorization received protection and sanctuary as they traveled through Mongol realms. |
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The usage of paper currency later spread throughout the Mongol Empire. |
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In the 13th century, Chinese paper money of Mongol Yuan became known in Europe through the accounts of travelers, such as Marco Polo and William of Rubruck. |
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He then enlarged his Mongol state under himself and his kin. |
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The Mamluks' Empire had been founded by former slaves bought from the Kipchack territory of southern Russia, which was now an important segment of the Mongol Golden Horde. |
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In 1387, Ming forces defeated the Mongol commander Naghachu's resisting forces who settled in the Haixi area and began to summon the Jurchen tribes to pay tribute. |
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Kublai renamed the Mongol regime in China Dai Yuan in 1271, and sought to sinicize his image as Emperor of China in order to win control of millions of Chinese people. |
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By assuming that title, the sovereign of Moscow tried to emphasize that he was a major ruler or emperor on par with the Byzantine emperor or the Mongol khan. |
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This was to be the last major Mongol incursion into the Levant. |
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The Mongol administration had issued paper currencies from 1227 on. |
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He became impressed with what he saw and was awakened to the backwardness of Russia, a nation that resembled a Mongol khanate more than a European monarchy. |
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In the early 13th century, a new wave of invaders, the Mongol Empire's armies, swept through the region but were eventually eclipsed by the Turks. |
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According to The Travels of Marco Polo, they passed through much of Asia, and met with Kublai Khan, a Mongol ruler and founder of the Yuan dynasty. |
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The Mongol army that besieged Xiangyang did have foreign military engineers, but they were mentioned in Chinese sources as being from Baghdad and had Arabic names. |
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He and his successors expanded the Mongol empire across Asia. |
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After their victories over European knights at Legnica and Muhi, Mongol armies quickly advanced across Bohemia, Serbia, Babenberg Austria and then into the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Mongol armies expanded westward under the command of Batu Khan. |
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They participated in Mongol invasions of Europe and the Song Dynasty in Southern China, and the Battle of Kulikovo under Mamai of the Golden Horde. |
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It's said that those Alans contributed to a modern Mongol clan, Asud. |
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This major decline is not necessarily due only to Mongol killings. |
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At the time, Mongol wrestlers were the most famous and powerful. |
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The adoption of a dynastic name legitimized Mongol rule by integrating the government into the narrative of traditional Chinese political succession. |
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In the Mongol Empire, the Great Khan was chosen by the Kurultai. |
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In fact, Wen was willing to live under Mongol rule as long as he was not forced to be a Yuan dynasty official, out of his loyalty to the Song dynasty. |
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The Mongol Yuan Dynasty became the first conquest dynasty in Chinese history to rule the entire China proper and its population as an ethnic minority. |
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However, the Mongol invasion also gave Nicaea a temporary respite from Seljuk attacks, allowing it to concentrate on the Latin Empire to its north. |
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After strengthening his government in northern China, Kublai pursued an expansionist policy in line with the tradition of Mongol and Chinese imperialism. |
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His love for Chinese culture sparked a sincere hatred for Mongol culture. |
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During the Yuan Dynasty, banknotes were adopted by the Mongol Empire. |
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Wars and construction projects had drained the Mongol treasury. |
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Mongol invaders were still causing many problems for the Ming Empire. |
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He mounted five military expeditions into the Mongol steppes and crushed the remnants of the Yuan dynasty that had fled north after being defeated by the Hongwu Emperor. |
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However, their kings soon declined to attend the Mongol court in person. |
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He was the first Yuan emperor to actively support and adopt mainstream Chinese culture after the reign of Kublai, to the discontent of some Mongol elite. |
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After the overthrow of the Mongol Yuan dynasty by the Ming dynasty in 1368, Manchuria remained under control of the Mongols of the Northern Yuan dynasty based in Mongolia. |
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In time, Kublai Khan's successors lost all influence on other Mongol lands across Asia, while the Mongols beyond the Middle Kingdom saw them as too Chinese. |
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The Mongol naval fleet was totally destroyed and Omar was captured. |
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The imperial attention and funding came to be diverted for the third, fourth, and fifth Mongol campaigns at the expense of the treasure fleet's voyages. |
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The Oirat Mongols who spoke the Oirat Mongol language and dialects like Kalmyk language or Torgut Oirat used a separate standard written with the Clear script. |
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In 1264 he was asked to go to Gansu to repair the damage that had been caused to the irrigation systems by the years of war during the Mongol advance through the region. |
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This pivotal battle marked the western limit for Mongol expansion, and the Mongols were never again able to make any serious military advances farther than Syria. |
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