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 Shah Ismail Safavi in the grand Battle of Chaldiran. The more modern and organized Ottoman…
Why did no one borrow the Mongols’ military tactics?
In their time, the Mongols fought their way across Eurasia. They stopped only at the shores of the “last sea,” as Genghis Khan had bequeathed to them: this was 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 felt nothing but animosity toward this cold and cruel man. The young man was the…
What happened to Mukhali, Genghis Khan’s favorite lieutenant?
During the conquest of the Jurchen Jin Empire in China, a military commander named Mukhali fought in the front ranks of the Mongol army. He was then appointed governor of…
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 testing ground for the Mongol military machine. The state of Xi Xia, which had stood…
Ugedei ulus is an unknown Mongolian state
All of us have studied history and know that the Mongol Empire broke up into the Golden Horde, the state of Hulaguids, the Chagatai Khanate and the ulus of the…
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 in the early 13th century were a Mongol tribe. They lived in the eastern part…
The first since Genghis Khan
No matter what they say, but the Genghisids are a great dynasty, because its founder Genghis Khan managed to turn an amorphous something from a bunch of Mongolian tribes into…
Command and army in the Golden Horde
The basis of the military system in the Ulus Dzhuchi was a hierarchically organized system of Tatar clans' possessions. Its characteristic feature was the intertwining of military and administrative system.…
“The Nogai Massacre”
In 1547, the warlike Crimean Khan Sahib-Girey took Astrakhan and, “having defeated the Astrakhan Khan Yamgurji, scattered his subjects, and the men and women who had escaped death, with all…