Absolutely! Icr the percentage of ppl today who still carry some Genghis gene's. Appartently he was very prodigious regarding the spread of his genes. ; )
@@musicmadgic6931 nah. You don't know what you are talking. Alexander got his empire made for him by his father Philip II while Genghi Khan got his empire from his own fist.
Look up subutai and jebe. Part of Chinggis khan' success is cause of these two generals. They conducted the undefeated campaigns from India to Russia, Korea to Italy. Jebe was even an enemy of Chinngis khan and shot him in the neck. But instead of vengeance, Chinggis Khan chose to recognize his skills and character. Subutai outlived Chinggis Khan and even taught the later khans.
Archeologists in Hungary found a funeral mural of a 13th century knight's battle against the Mongols...half way around the world japanese samurais recorded battles against the Mongols....these two peoples didnt even know the other existed, let alone fighting a same enemy....However Mongols did
early, both Franc Empire and Chinese Tang Dynasty fought against thr Arab Empire, both European Knights and Chinese Kara-Khitan Dynasty battle against the Seldjulks,
@@Emilechen not to the world encompassing extent the mongols did.....all those are isolated single events...mongols ruled for hundreds of years in russia and central asia
First ever Mongolian state appeared in 20th century. Before 20th century Mongolians had neither their own state, nor their own army. What historians are referring to as Mongolian Empire, actually was a Russian-Tatar empire. Tatars are Europeans. Tatar ethnos originated on the northern coast of Black Sea.
Asia was colonized by Volga Tatars. Many Asian tribes in the process of colonization lost their languages and switched to one or other dialect of Tatar language. After the defeat in a civil war, an old regime horde moved to Central Asia and it also contributed to spreading of Tatar language into Asia.
One of the many things that was good about this video was the actual topic selection. Instead of trying to have a somewhat seamless chronology (which would have been impossible in 20 minutes) you picked out some of the most important things a generalist observer needs to know about the mongols. Choosing those topics and linking them without making them mere bullet points is a very difficult task and you did it extremely well.
He failed to mention their décisive loss against the Muslim Mamluk army the Most decisive historic battle that stopped the mongol expansioin Ain Jalut (Goliath) battle
Subutai is considered by historians to be one of the greatest generals of all time. He was the chief military strategist of both Genghis Khan and his son Ogedei. The Mongol Empire is documented as the largest land empire ever. Subutai had a lot to do with this but history generally fails to properly give him the credit.
Well during Genghis khans era. Genghis khan himself was a chief tactican. After that Muqali and Boorchi were most likely chief generals. Subutai wasnt chief or main tactician of Genghis khan. Even Jebe wasnt
Yeah, the fact that Mongolia invaded Russia in the midst of winter while Germany couldn't do it with MUCH more soldiers and industrialization more than half a thousand years after is astonishing. But Mongols were more wild, and their climate is closer to Russia's than it's case with Germany.
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From the show "Draining the oceans" they were able to discover that the fleet that tried to invade Japan had poorly built ships which couldn't stand the rough storms of the deep sea. They were mostly Chinese and Korean coastal fishing and merchant ships. If they had prepared proper war ships things might have taken a different turn.
@@kazkaskazkas8689 Chinese fleets didn't even land in japan, they didn't want to help the mongols attack japan. Those who invaded japan were the mongol and korean fleets in the north.
"I am the scourge of tenger(sky,heaven), if you hadnt commit such sins god wouldnt have sent a punishment like me upon you" "Hard mountains exist Dont think how to overcome it Have a will to overcome it Furious rivers exist Dont think how to cross it Have a desire to conquer it" "If you are afraid dont do it, if you are doing it dont be afraid" "I didnt become the khan Because i am the best of these men The love of eternal tenger Made me a khan I didnt sit on throne With my strength Blessing of father sky Made me a khan" - Famous quotes of Chinggis khan
"I am the scourge of tenger(sky,heaven), if you hadnt commit such sins god wouldnt have sent a punishment like me upon you" Sounds like Christian religion to me.
You wonder if the world might have been different without losing a hundred thousand warriors or even double that on the way to Japan. Who knows how powerful they would've become after conquering the entire Asian region and even slightly beyond that. As every area they conquered, that countries people were forced to join their army.
I just want to add that defining Genghis Khan into "Mongol" or Mongolian and defining Jin, Song, Tangut into Chinese deviate from the authentic history during that time. The term Mongol & Chinese did not exist during that time.
Imagine living in peace and prosperity never knowing war or hardship surrounded by your loved ones and then suddenly there's screaming and shouting and sounds of fighting and people running in panic and everything you ever knew about life turns out to be wrong.
Kublai Khan was never the great Khan. In fact he was a fat lazy failure. But had a mind for technologies. He needed the help of Mongke Khan to defeat China. It was Mongke who was "great Khan". Plenty of other mistakes as well. But that was the most glaring. And it was an overall, a good accounting. Funny how the mighty Hulegu' and Batu Khans were barely mentioned. Both were the spearheads of most of their greatest expansions.
Because they (Mongolian) lived to conquer but not to rule. The Persian, the Roman, all failed and under ashes now. Chinese on the other hand, their empire is still much the same till these days.
The Romans and Mongols, you can't compare them. It's almost like civilizations of 2 worlds. Romans - civilized, educated, great rulers, have good generals which can conquer too.. Meanwhile, Mongols - eager for revenge to those who underestimated them, only conquer and aren't really born to rule unlike Romans. If you had Roman mind in charge of the country with soldiers like Mongols you'd probably have the greatest empire in history. But those two wouldn't fit together, different races and viewpoints... Totally.
Full story?? There are big missing part when Mongol (Kublai Khan) experienced huge defeats against Majapahit Kingdom, Nusantara (Indonesian today) in 1293 AD. Also got defeated by Delhi Sultanate (Indian today) in 1306 AD.
It was too bad that the Mongol invasion of Persia resulted in the destruction of the great Baghdad library. There was so much accumulated knowledge from accross Asia, Africa, and Europe...
There was no Russia at the time buddy. It was Russ, it wasn't the size of Russia and it was a bunch of little kingdoms that hated each other. The Russ wouldn't lift a finger to help the other neighbors and one by one they felt, but even so their small little kingdoms gave the Mongols a run for their money. If Russ was united the Mongols would had probably failed.
Oh really? Then what do you make of the facts that Mongols had successfully annihilated and brought down highly civilised and military powerful Empires like Khwarazm and whole Chinese kingdoms. They weren’t just tiny little kingdoms like Rus and Ukrainian principles. Yet these countries fielded way more soldiers than entire Mongol population in that time and age.
mangudai or manguud is a tribe name... also tenrism and shamanism is same thing there few types of shaman's, shaman's that call on ancestors that takes about 90% and it is common mostly they serve heavenly dieties in heavens, the next group shaman's that rely on spirits of mountains and rivers they take about 9,9% they are weaker at the start but once they achieve 99 river mountain blessing they get very strong also they can curse people with little or no consequences and the very few would achieve diety of the heavens shamanism i have only heard few stories about them never met one
Tanguts are manchus. The jalair mongols (inhabited modern day buryatia and northern mongolia) are the ancestors of the khalkha mongols. Also genghis khan proclaimed the “eh mongol” empire not “eh turk” empire, why else do you think modern day mongolians are FAR more steppe nomadic traditional than any turkic people today.
Mongolia was filled with mongolic, turkic and allegedly even siberian nomadic people (even today, there are many turko-mongol people in mongolia). Tatars are turkic, different than mongols, but back then they were all viewed as the same because they were all multi-religious tribal nomadic horse people often seen as savages by the chinese. So the chinese saw any nomadic horsemen from the steppes as the same even though they were different ethnics. Because of this they used to refer to them as tatars because they were one of if not the most dominant clan before mongols became a thing. After mongols became the dominant ones, they referred them all as mongols even though MANY of them were turkic. Genghis actually committed genocide on many tatars because a tatar tribe had killed his father when he was little. Because of this many early historians thought tatars, kazakhs (the ones in mongolia) etc. were all same as mongols. But as study of genealogy and history progressed they realized who was more closely related to who and which ones were turk and mongol etc.
Japan is not the only kingdom that become Kublai target, he also try to expand south Into Indochina and indonesian archipelago. He make 2 failure attemp to invade dai viet and an embarrassing failure expedition to subjugate Singhasari kingdom in Indonesia.
The mongols were truly a vast moving army and a nightmare to deal with but their empire was interestingly doomed compared to the romans because unlike rome the mongols didn't offer unity under any kind of common culture it was just subjugation by a barbarian horde and as soon as the leadership faltered the conquered nations would break free. Just shows that military strength isn't enough to unite disparate cultures
I am laughing into tears when this video mentioned that Mongolian conquered Beijing. Come on. The city of Beijing was built by Mongolian. Before Mongolian, the city of Beijing was nothing but an unknown small town. Mongolian moved its capital to there, and named it as “big capital’ or Kahan Balig.
Please don't mixup Mongolian Ghenghis Khan with the Chinese. Most Chinese were farmers at that time while the Mongolians were on horseback. China has a history of more than 5000 years and rice growing 10000 years. The Mongolian appear much later and they look after animals such as goats and horses.
I highly recommend Dan Carlins “Wrath of Khan” podcast if you’d like to hear in-depth about the mongol rise to power. 5 episodes and between 3-5 hours each. Great storyteller
Great summary, its really great knowing history in this peaceful time, but I feel pity to those people in the path of war, it took everything from them.
@@allcatsarebeautiful2770 MOST of the world. No wars anywhere in Europe west of the Ukraine, all of the Americas are peaceful, with a couple of relatively non-bloody revolts, Most of Asia is at peace....we don't realize how lucky we are. The few "hot spots": the Middle East, central Western Africa, Ukraine, the Horn of Africa - they are relentlessly played up by the Mass Media, in gory, minute-by-minute detail. This gives a false sense of the world being in upheaval. Same for most of "The News": it's only "news" because it is not common: the exception rather than the norm. Believe it or don't, the world is more peaceful now, than at any time since the Pax Romanica.
@@connorlancaster7541 I do my best, but my merit is not mine. Jesus died for me because I could not obey Him fully. He gave me His righteousness. So now I strive to live my life for Him out of thankfulness.
Im pretty sure Gunghis already long dead by that time. Also being tributary state are far from being conquered. When they clean their mess they can always strike back. And paying tribute to the mongols are the better choice than annihilation by the crusaders.
I was wondering how a pastoral tribes conquered almost the world and finally I got my answer. They've been moving and living everywhere their whole lives which made them to cope with the situation to go on war for years as they don't have an specific home to miss or go back
@@olufemiolumilua4689 nope my point is their home is the land not a house or parts of the land how can one miss their home when every where you roam is your home
@@bradenr867 exactly? Nope his point being no Specific home my point the land is home when nomads move they aren't moving homes they are just moving bedrooms inside their home so they are always home
Meat-eating Mongols were probably a huge factor when Genghis Khan expanded his empire. Some historians discuss the fact that Mongol soldiers were superior to Chinese soldiers because the Mongols ate a diet with high-quality meat and fat, making them strong and healthy. The Chinese soldiers were fed mostly rice which made them weaker. Also, the Mongolian soldiers ate a lot of raw meat and did not have to prepare food during wartime, which also gave them an advantage on the battlefield.
That was not a raw meat, that was a “Borts” it’s cold air dried meat. Borts is more nutritious, and said to be tastier, than other modern field rations. There is an unconfirmed method from old times: Mongolian nobles relied on borts for months-long journeys. Dried carefully for three years and then ground into a fine powder, until it all could fit through a sieve. It further shrinks volume of the borts so whole cow's meat can fit into a cow's bladder. Just a pinch of borts prepared like this said to able to nourish 3-4 people in a soup form.
@@mekhzakhq976 Sounds like Pemmican that indians used to prepare in America. Many historians claims that Mongols did eat raw meat though. Somethimes they would take the raw meat and place it on the saddle of their horse and sit on it when riding. After a while the meat would soften up and became less tough to chew.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia: Unless you are the Mongol Never invade Russia in winter: Unless you are the Mongol Never...Unless you are the Mongol
@A̐manjol M̐əmbetjanūlı False, During Baybars & Qutuz time period, Majority Mamelukes were Circassian // Also Mongol Commander Baiju Noyan Crushed a Sjeljuk Army 3 Times as big as his own at battle of Kose Dag
@@426mak it wasnt really a battle but more of a stalemate where a mongol horde of 200k including client states in central asia invaded hungary a second time and the hungarians hid behind their 50 newly built western style castles while the mongols sieged them. Unfortunately for the mongols western style castles laugh at trebuchets so the mongols starved to death and resorted to cannibalism. The remaining army was destroyed by the hungarian king. The mongol horde never again attempted an invasion of central europe. Fyi... 50 western style castles destroyed the mongols.... Germany has 5 thousand castles and fortified towns during that time. I will try to look it up later its been a while since ive read that history.
I was studying the history of the world conquest of the Mongol Empire, the most hyperpower empire in the world, and it was a great reference. I am majoring in world history and war history, so I am studying world history and war history. 세계를 정복한 세계최강대국인 몽골제국의 세계정복사를 공부하고 있었는데, 정말 훌륭한 참고가 되었습니다. 저는 세계사와 전쟁사를 전공해서 세계사, 전쟁사 전공입니다.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia: Unless you are the Mongol Never invade Russia in winter: Unless you are the Mongol Never...Unless you are the Mongol
@@426mak there was no unified Russia to conquer Russia or the Rus didn’t exist until after the mongols were long gone. The Russians actually conquered even Mongolia eventually so your example is wrong mongols couldn’t even protect their homelands for 500 years after Ghengis died very impressive when the last time a foreign power conquered England was a thousand years ago.
3:37 Another translation of "Genghis Khan" that probably highlights what they thought of him a bit better would be "Universal Ruler." Genghis literally means great but they pretty much considered him to be the ruler of the world
Plz make more socio-political documentaries on other steppe nations,like xiongnu,Huns,Scythians,Gökturks and also on yuezhi tribes (Kushan),and wusun's also .
