How the Chinese «helped» Russia to get rid of the Mongols
Screex It is known that ancient China is the birthplace of inventions that had a significant push in the development of human civilization. Among these inventions, a special place is occupied…
The Mongol invasion of the Caucasus. Alanian kingdom
On the eve of the Mongol strike, the North Caucasus was a place of survival for warlike tribes. The most important was the Alanian kingdom. The last shard of the…
Invincible nomads or Europeans who have forgotten how to win?
The Hungarians, also called Magyars, were the only representatives of the Finno-Ugrians who moved from the forest zone to the steppe zone. It is supposed that the reason for such…
The Khanate of the Ferocious
It seemed that by the XVII century the Mongols were no longer a significant figure on the political map of the world: they were fragmented, deprived of necessary natural resources,…
Kipchaks against the Mongols . Steppe rage
The Kipchaks resisted the Mongol invasion for 20 years. Longest. For 20 years the Mongols stubbornly destroyed the Polovtsians (Kipchaks), those stubbornly resisted. There are two reasons for such fury,…
From nomads to empire: the first conquests of the Ottomans
The birth of a new power on the wreckage of old empires In 1265, with the death of Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, a new phase in the…
Dzungaria: a mysterious enemy of Russia and China
The Oirats are considered the heirs of Genghis Khan. They lived in a vast country stretching from the Kazakh steppes to Tibet. The first mention of the Dzungars (or as…
«Yedigey — the last strong khan of the Golden Horde»: could return the former power
"Everything has an end and everything has a beginning" - not without reason so says a very famous saying. And the Mongol Empire - a powerful steppe power, the greatest…
«Kalmyk Khanate»: Russia’s adversaries turned allies
The Kalmyk Khanate, which existed from 1633 to 1771, was the successor of such irreconcilable opponents of Russia as the Nogai Horde and the Oirat Khanate. But history has arranged…
Why did the Turks defeat the Scythians?
In other times nomads of Iranian origin occupied half of southern Siberia. And in the east, their possessions reached what is now Western China. Not to mention their homeland and…