After Genghis Khan's death in 1227, his sons moved away from their father's approach to army formation and began to include the troops of the conquered. This was inevitable, pure…
China was not the only region where Genghis Khan left his bloody mark. After a convincing victory over the Jin Empire, the Great Khan set his eyes on the rich…
Attila is rightly called one of the great conquerors. Under the leadership of the Hun leader were united numerous Eastern European tribes, and the Western Roman Empire could not recover…
basis of social organization for any of the Eurasian nomadic tribes, not only for the Mongols. The steppe was divided according to clan origin, positions under the supreme rulers were…
At the turn of the 12th -13th centuries, Genghis Khan, the commander and first great khan of the Mongol Empire, united the Mongol and Turkic tribes and conquered vast territories…
Selim the Terrible is not very popular among historians because of his hard temper. Therefore, he is in the shadow of his son Suleiman, who is often referred to as…
The title “sultan” comes from the Arabic language and means something between “power” and “authority”. When there was no single Muslim state, the Arab Caliphate, the sultans were those rulers…
In brief, it sank and disintegrated. Tamerlane, to all appearances, sought to abandon the Mongolian method of transferring power and establish a strict majorate - a system of succession from…
The story of the fall of medieval Muslim Baghdad, the end of the Abbasid Caliphate, as a result of the Mongol invasion in 1258, despite the scale of the tragedy…
Subedei and Dzhebe - Genghis Khan's best Mongol generals The long campaign of Subedei and Dzhebe After spending the summer of 1220 near Nessef, Genghis Khan led his army to…
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