How did Mongol horse archers defeat Turkic horse archers?
Screex 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…
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,…
How were the Egyptian Mamluks able to defeat the Mongols?
Not many countries managed to defeat the Mongols in battle at the peak of their power. And almost all of them lost the war anyway, resigned to defeat and paid…
How did the Hungarians defeat the Mongols?
The Middle Danube is the last large section of the Eurasian steppe, which stretches westward from Manchuria itself. Therefore, equestrian peoples have historically strived here: the Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Avars,…
What a tragedy for Baghdad the invasion of the Mongols turned out to be
The capital of the Caliphate, the City of Peace, the pearl of the Abbasid state, the cultural and political center of Islamic society, built in an amazing way in the…
The personal guard of Batyi Khan: what is known about the elite of the Mongols?
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…
Subeday is a Mongol general who conquered half the world
Genghis Khan used to say that he had 4 wolves of war: Djebe, Khubilai, Jelme and Subedei. The reason why few people know about Subedei is that the shocked Europe…
How did Genghis Khan take over China?
1215 The great Jin Empire was plunged into chaos. After the capture of the Middle Capital, the chancellor committed suicide and the first minister went missing. The young emperor, who…
“Europe shuddered at the Mongols»: The Battle of Legnica and its aftermath
After the complete conquest of Russia by the Mongol army in 1240, Eastern Europe was hit. But under the weakened blow, for the heroic defense of Russian cities “wiped out”…
Genghis Khan disappeared after his defeat by Jamukha. Where was he for eight years?!
After losing a battle to his former friend, Genghis Khan disappears from all radars for about 8 years. Where was he all this time? There are several different points of…