1206 steppe
The launch pad.
A map of 1290 that still shows one colour is lying a little. Show khanates.
A Korea-Japan inset for 1274/1281 is mandatory in this atlas.
Maps
1241 western ride
Kiev to Mohi -- and the withdrawal.
1258 Baghdad
A city as a world-political end.
Goryeo campaigns
The Korean inset this atlas requires.
Khanates c. 1290
The honest split map.
Portrayals
Marco Polo editions
The English default tale.
Mongol school-map blob
The visual cliche to unlearn.
Japanese kamikaze legend
1281 as divine wind -- incomplete without Korean yards.
Mongolian national Chinggis
A modern state icon on an old conqueror.
Russian Horde memory
A long literary aftertaste (and later nationalist uses).
Korean Goryeo dramas / museums
The local thick portrayal.
Rituals
Naadam (modern Mongolia)
A later national festival that cites the horse-warrior past -- not a thirteenth-century rite unchanged.
Japanese 1281 commemorations
Typhoon-as-deliverance rites; pair them with Korean forced-labour history.
Goryeo temple and palace sites
Korean remembrance of invasion and overlordship.
Sayings
Hungarian and Polish battlefield markers are the European pilgrimage; Goryeo sites are the East Asian one.
School blobs made the empire famous and the victims generic. This page tries to un-generic the victims without inventing false precision.