Mongol conquests (1206): Chinggis titled
[18] [mongol-conquests-0-18] Mongol conquests is the record of 1206 under “Chinggis titled.” The figure to read with it is 1294. 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. Deaths are among the least certain in this atlas: published scholarly ranges often sit around 20-40 million across the thirteenth century, with som
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 1206, “Chinggis titled,” and 1294. The figure is not a national score.1206
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1206
- Figure in the record
- 1294
- Action
- Mongol conquests
- Line of the front
- Chinggis titled
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