Re:Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
by jltsiren on Monday June 06, 2022 @08:18PM
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The Mongol Empire was not a single ethnic group. The top leaders were ethnic Mongols (much in the same way as Europe used to be a family business), but the troops were mostly from conquered peoples. I would assume that the field army was mostly Turkic, as Turkic peoples were more numerous than Mongolic peoples and their societies and styles of warfare were similar.
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Re:Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
by mrcheesebreeze on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:58AM
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also they splintered into multiple khanates early on with the great khans only having some respect rather than the ability to stop the infighting.