How did the Iranian Shah Abbas the Great defeat the Ottoman Empire?
Screex At the end of August 1514, the Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim defeated the Iranian...
Why did no one borrow the Mongols’ military tactics?
In their time, the Mongols fought their way across Eurasia. They stopped only at the...
Why did Genghis Khan’s son feud with his father?
The mere mention of his formidable father’s name struck fear into entire nations, but Jochi...
What happened to Mukhali, Genghis Khan’s favorite lieutenant?
During the conquest of the Jurchen Jin Empire in China, a military commander named Mukhali...
The kingdom that became the first victim of the Mongols. It was completely wiped off the face of the earth
The Tanguts could not even imagine that their prosperous Buddhist kingdom would become the first...
Ugedei ulus is an unknown Mongolian state
All of us have studied history and know that the Mongol Empire broke up into...
Why did the Turks of the Golden Horde start calling themselves Tatars?
Regardless of their original origins and the ethnic roots of their ruling clan, the Tatars...
The first since Genghis Khan
No matter what they say, but the Genghisids are a great dynasty, because its founder...
Command and army in the Golden Horde
The basis of the military system in the Ulus Dzhuchi was a hierarchically organized system...
“The Nogai Massacre”
In 1547, the warlike Crimean Khan Sahib-Girey took Astrakhan and, “having defeated the Astrakhan Khan...