Only a few guesses why the Mongols were victorious in their many wars
Screex Genghis Khan's problems I have told you a lot about how Temujin's Mongols defeated all their enemies from Southern China to the Northern Black Sea coast. By the way, in…
Where did the Mongols get hundreds of thousands of arrows in the middle of the steppe?
The traditional tactics of Eurasian nomads envisioned engaging in close combat only as a last resort. Only when the enemy's best warriors had fallen, and the enemy army was breaking…
From the Rhine to the Volga: Who the Huns were and how they created their great power
In 376 AD, the barbarians living north of the Danube turned to their civilized adversary Rome for help and asked for protection. The reason for this was fear of an…
“They were boiled in 70 cauldrons.” How did the barbaric torture of captives elevate Genghis Khan?
“Before leaving, he ordered the execution of the chiefs, following the traditions of ancient China. Seventy cauldrons were prepared for the execution.” As you already know, Genghis Khan found his…
The Mongol Empire. How did the second largest state in history emerge and why did it disappear?
In the ranking of the largest states in history, the first place is, of course, the British Empire, whose total territory by 1921 ranged from 31 to 36.6 million square…
How did Mongol horse archers defeat Turkic horse archers?
Türks and Mongols lived in close contact for many millennia and were part of the same states. For this reason, scientists are still struggling over the insoluble problem: what origin…
The mystery of Batyi’s invasion — where are the burials of the Mongols?
The Western campaign of the Mongols is known in detail, many annals and chronicles have been written about it in 20 countries in 15 languages. Starting with eyewitnesses of the…
The Enigma of Steppe Warriors: Why the Pechenegs Ignored Hygiene but Obsessively Cleaned Their Ears
Hygiene paradoxes: a cultural phenomenon of Pecheneg society The hygienic practices of the Pechenegs represent a unique historical phenomenon that has long puzzled researchers. Archaeological data and written sources of…
Subbotnik or death: how did khashar, the Mongols’ most feared tactic, come to be?
The word “khashar” is translated from Arabic as “joint free labor. And in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, since Soviet times, it has been used in the sense of “subbotnik”. That is,…
Akinji: what became of the Cossacks of the Ottoman Empire?
The Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks bore a Turkic name, lived a Turkic life, used Turkic tactics in war, and even by blood were largely Turkic, as bride-kidnapping from neighbors was…