Mongol conquests (1241): Mohi and Legnica
[278] [desk-mongol-conquests-2] Mongol conquests is the record of 1241 under “Mohi and Legnica.” The figure to read with it is 1206. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. Goryeo fought, submitted, rebelled, and was compelled to build ships for Japan. The Mongol century is a Korean political trauma, not a cameo.
Steppe unification, city sieges, and a Eurasian afterlife The Mongol wars were a technology of mobility and terror that became, in the successor khanates, a system of tax, post and pluralism -- at a demographic price still counted in ranges. Chinggis's early wars were against steppe rivals, then Western Xia and Jin. The 1215 fall of Zhongdu (Beijing) is an early named urban catastrophe in the Chinese record.
Ogedei and later Mongke continued the China war; Kublai's Yuan was a conquest dynasty that also became a Chinese state. The Khwarezm war (from 1219) after the Otrar incident produced the most famous massacre chronicles. Batu and Subutai's 1237-42 western campaign broke Volga Bulgaria and many Rus' cities and defeated European knights at Legnica and Mohi -- then withdrew when Ogedei died.
Hulagu's 1258 sack of Baghdad ended the Abbasid caliphate's old political theatre. Ain Jalut (1260) stopped the Syrian advance. Japan survived two invasion attempts (1274, 1281) that Korean and Chinese shipyards were forced to support -- a Goryeo trauma as much as a Japanese typhoon legend.
Say Mongol conquests with 1241, “Mohi and Legnica,” and 1206. The figure is not a national score.1241
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1241
- Figure in the record
- 1206
- Action
- Mongol conquests
- Line of the front
- Mohi and Legnica