How did the Mongols Conquer China?

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How did the Mongols Conquer China?
The Mongol Empire. The imperial power has become a thing of fame around the globe as the home of the legendary Ghengis Khan.
When most people think of the Mongol Empire, they think of power, conquest, and of course, Ghengis Khan.
But not so often, some may ask how the Mongols managed to become synonymous with such words and legends. After all, this single empire managed to be the first to bring every inch of China - which was at that point made up of an amalgamation of separate entities - under the control of a foreign power. This feat would have been impressive in any case, but the gravity of the accomplishment is strengthened by the fact that the Mongol Empire faced a multitude of opponents and locally established dynasties that they managed to defeat in order to seize the entire region. So, how exactly did they manage to do this?...
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♦Sources :
Atwood, C. P. Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire.
Goodrich, L. Carrington. A Short History of the Chinese People.
Man, John. Genghis Khan.
Shinno, Reiko. “The Mongol conquest and the new configuration of power, 1206-76”.
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  • @micahistory
    @micahistory2 жыл бұрын

    This is the perfect example of how the enemy of your enemy isn't always your friend

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    2 жыл бұрын

    You just need to know who the bigger enemy is

  • @IamAWESOME3980

    @IamAWESOME3980

    2 жыл бұрын

    your friends until your enemies fall

  • @jinskyjoyous

    @jinskyjoyous

    2 жыл бұрын

    before this, China allied with Jin to eliminate Liao. Jin was a friend (enemy of Liao), then became the biggest enemy. Almost identical story.

  • @MrPataca1000

    @MrPataca1000

    2 жыл бұрын

    所以我们中国人的历史时刻提醒我们不要相信那些北方人

  • @benlam496

    @benlam496

    2 жыл бұрын

    If it’s age of 3 kingdom, Son Quan would aid the Jin in fighting Mongolians, after defeating the Mongolian army, he would turn his back to fight the Jin with the weaker Mongolian troops. After Jin is done might face the Mongolian head on

  • @parallel38
    @parallel382 жыл бұрын

    Given how many decades it took them to take China who was right next to them vs how easy it took them to breeze through to Central Asia-Europe really showed how strong China was.

  • @YJSP893

    @YJSP893

    Жыл бұрын

    however Song China had the weakest military... It had talented generals, but the emporor limited them so bad many times, Song China almost had a chance to take back lands but all oppotunities are lost

  • @bankrob9941

    @bankrob9941

    Жыл бұрын

    mongol was the tributary state of jin dynasty. jin basiclly bully mongol for long time until mongol united

  • @bot01020

    @bot01020

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bankrob9941 mongol wasn’t a thing before genghis khan, the Jin dynasty has minor tribes under them, but some how one man is able to unit all of it

  • @afdalridwan3813

    @afdalridwan3813

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bot01020 the Sima family who rule Jin for 1000 years was just causing Suffers for Xiongnu tribes(Mongol's also)untuk Main character born named Chingghis

  • @user-qt3ms8zs6j

    @user-qt3ms8zs6j

    Жыл бұрын

    Ehhh, Central asia just didn't have any centralised powers and its one of the least densely populated region of the world

  • @ty814
    @ty8143 ай бұрын

    It took great khans Genghis Khan, Ugodei Khan, Gayuk Khan , Mongke Khan and the last Kublai Khan (Nominal) various decades to conquer entire China using their military might. It shows how hard was to conquer China.

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions2 жыл бұрын

    "Pride and excess bring disaster for man" - Xunzi

  • @zheng1437
    @zheng14372 жыл бұрын

    When we said the Mongol had 100 thousand armies, they really do have a hundred thousand armies that can fight. They settle camps anywhere they like and hunt the wild animals when they want to eat. When you said that the Chinese had 400 thousand armies, 80% of them are administrative, food transporters and units that do not fight. They bring and transport their own food to war. So it is only about 100 thousand armies that cannot fight as well as the Mongols.

  • @shiwuli5496

    @shiwuli5496

    2 жыл бұрын

    不完全是这样吧(๑ت๑)

  • @PrabirKrPal

    @PrabirKrPal

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Jin empire alone mobilised an army of a million (900,000 infantry and 100,000 cavalry) to fight against the mongols, but they were decimated by the mongols because of there superior mobility and tactics.

  • @sergiovastano5422

    @sergiovastano5422

    2 жыл бұрын

    Numbers alone don't won wars.When the Mongols fought,they put an entire army ready to fight. When the Jin called for war,the dressed as soldiers peasants and commoners. Having the outfit of a warrior doesn't make you into a real soldier. That's the difference. We must also say that the Jon had a professional militia and army as well,but Mongola were simply stronger.

  • @leitgongao6558

    @leitgongao6558

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mobility is another important thing. Actually Jin won many battles against the Mongols. But when Mongols lose, they can always retreat without big casualty. When Jin loses, they usually lose the entire army.

  • @PrabirKrPal

    @PrabirKrPal

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@leitgongao6558 Ghengis Khan's mongols didn't lose any battles against the Jin. But they lost quite a number of battles against the Song.

  • @diegomendez5646
    @diegomendez56462 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely magnificent. Please don't stop making these amazing content :)

  • @prrfrrpurochicas
    @prrfrrpurochicas2 жыл бұрын

    Love that you covered this topic and such other topics.

  • @PrabirKrPal
    @PrabirKrPal2 жыл бұрын

    Genghis Khan united the mongol tribes to protect Mongolia from outside threats. But he ended up making the biggest land empire in history.

  • @michaelcooper9422

    @michaelcooper9422

    2 жыл бұрын

    Second great britian had the biggest

  • @michaelcooper9422

    @michaelcooper9422

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@StandTallFortress i know in which britian still held the most land at its peak.

  • @michaelcooper9422

    @michaelcooper9422

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@StandTallFortress take that back im wrong lol.

  • @DrDoomsd

    @DrDoomsd

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@StandTallFortress British invaded almost every country in the world. They defeated the central powers, Napoleon and the Axis powers. They defeated the Dutch, Spain and Swedes. They also subdued India and china. Apart from all the technological and political innovations they brought. You must be crazy

  • @shafqatishan437

    @shafqatishan437

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelcooper9422 he said land empire not colonial empire.

  • @austinreed5805
    @austinreed58052 жыл бұрын

    The Rise of the Mongol Empire is one of the greatest conquests in human history.

  • @t3rm715

    @t3rm715

    2 жыл бұрын

    Clearly you've never heard of Alexander the Great

  • @ASh-oe9hm

    @ASh-oe9hm

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@t3rm715 and you surely you've never heard about Alexander the fake is not real lol

  • @thesoupmills1426

    @thesoupmills1426

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ASh-oe9hm the fuck does that even mean

  • @michaelbohlen4762

    @michaelbohlen4762

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@t3rm715 Alexander the Great's conquests were meager compared to the Mongols. Alexander inherited a professional army, one of the first of its kind during the time period, from his father Phillip. Ghenghis Khan united the nomadic tribes of Mongolia, made them a professional army, and conquered a greater landmass.

  • @connor4955

    @connor4955

    2 жыл бұрын

    Both did great things. Plus, both lived at different time periods. What does this mean? different technology, different military tactics that worked and things like that. Also I can’t believe I have to say this but Alexander the Great ONE HUNDRED PERCENT IS REAL.. @A Sh There are non-Greek, Babylonian texts mentioning him in Iran. Plus Zoroastrian texts as well. Stop being blinded by nationalism and take the time to look up facts. I get you love your country but you can’t deny an event happened, especially when people of that region at the time fighting Alexander are saying he was there.

  • @MrTTuguldur
    @MrTTuguldur2 жыл бұрын

    Mongols had genius military leaders that was born from the harsh time that made them tough and hardy people.

  • @TheSuperhoden

    @TheSuperhoden

    2 жыл бұрын

    That does make you a good general. They were good because they got promoted on quality and not inheritance

  • @clezploo2373

    @clezploo2373

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah subutai is best general world history

  • @TheSuperhoden

    @TheSuperhoden

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@clezploo2373 why? Hamical went undefeated against the roman empire during the first punic war while being completely isolated, after the war he conquered Spain. His son spent 20 years isolated and unbeaten in Italy. Amongst other accomplishments. Oda nobunaga had some of world's most amazing victories, including beating a 30.000 strong army with a 3.000 strong army and he did it in an open battlefield. Or Fredrick from Prussia who fought Russia, Austria, France and a lot of minor nations at the same time being extremely outnumbered. Or prince Eugene of savoy, even Napoleon called him the best at some point. Or Charlemagne, "the father of europe" who basically created a massive empire covering half of Europe out of nothing. Or Saladin, the one who allowed islam to conquer half the world and who beat the Christian armies. Or tamerlane, who started from nothing, with a handful of men and he basically conquered all from nowdays turkey to the border of China. Or Maurice of nassau, he allowed a nation of 1.000.000 people to fight against the greatest empire at the moment, the Spanish empire. And they won after 80 years. So many generals who can also be the greatest. And then we havent even covered Aztec or inca generals or some of the leading figures to fight colonists like Tecumseh. Calling one the greatest is the definition of arrogance.

  • @darrenjunior3576

    @darrenjunior3576

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheSuperhoden that is very true my friend. Spot on!

  • @davinciboimusic
    @davinciboimusic2 ай бұрын

    My heart breaks knowing how the little Song Emperor was thrown off the cliff to his death when the Mongols besieged their land... Much love to the Song Dynasty!

  • @Himmel-nh5ws
    @Himmel-nh5ws Жыл бұрын

    Interesting fact: When Kublai Khan was about to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty (China),he became emperor of China.And changed the Mongol Empire into the Yuan Dynasty, China.China has successfully survived in this way

  • @moozillamoo2109

    @moozillamoo2109

    Жыл бұрын

    That's just for the enslaved. Mongols didn't believe in this nonsense, as they ruled mostly from Mongolia. Bug apparently you do.

  • @hiyukelavie2396

    @hiyukelavie2396

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@moozillamoo2109 But they did Kublai Khan and the Yuan dynasty became so Chinese that they were rejected by the other Mongols

  • @ganbatmunkhtur9048

    @ganbatmunkhtur9048

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hiyukelavie2396 not rejected due to being too chinese but they backed different people in the civil war. And killing of Most of Oguudei lineage is what made Tului lineage or Khublai khan rejected by other Mongol khanate. if you read into the history of Chingis khaans 4 sons family it's so clear.

  • @smartwatcherss5718

    @smartwatcherss5718

    Жыл бұрын

    The mongols became Chinese in the End

  • @dingleberry4234

    @dingleberry4234

    7 ай бұрын

    @@smartwatcherss5718anyone who tried to conquer them did 😅

  • @rj5848
    @rj58482 жыл бұрын

    If mongols failed in conquering Xixia then mongols would never have gained confidence to conquer other lands and therefore we wont have the largest continuous empire this huge

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    2 жыл бұрын

    He likely still would've expanded into central asia and would've used that to attack the western xia from multiple angles repeatedly until they submitted. That kingdom was not destined to survive due to its poor geography.

  • @Belioyt

    @Belioyt

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think if the Mongols did establish their empire, another group of people would have

  • @mint8648

    @mint8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Belioyt no

  • @mint8648

    @mint8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Patrick Swan but mongols were an outlier. it’s not normal to conquer such a vast territory within 100 years during the middle ages

  • @mint8648

    @mint8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Patrick Swan only british, russian empires can compare with the size of the mongol empire. the next largest empire, the qing, doesn’t even come close to half what the mongol empire ruled.

  • @ScribaeEducantum
    @ScribaeEducantum2 жыл бұрын

    Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Jim Rohn

  • @elijahjohnson601
    @elijahjohnson6012 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video!

  • @mukhtarsyajaratun1025
    @mukhtarsyajaratun10252 жыл бұрын

    The benefits of the Mongols conquering China are massive, they've got skilled Chinese engineers that can build siege weapon, gunpowder, large wealth and gained many talented/skillful people around China. Its like Britain when they finally conquered India, which played a big part in the empire

  • @cs-mi8ur

    @cs-mi8ur

    2 жыл бұрын

    Britain conquered india with Indian banker money, same can't be said about the Mongols.

  • @mint8648

    @mint8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cs-mi8ur and then they used that money to buy indians to fight for them

  • @cs-mi8ur

    @cs-mi8ur

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mint8648 yes and the bankers profited greatly. Few of those families still have a large wealth though they maintain obscurity. Even in the 7 years war they loaned a huge amt to the British.

  • @mukhtarsyajaratun1025

    @mukhtarsyajaratun1025

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cs-mi8ur are the Indian currency at that time powerful compared to the British one?

  • @cs-mi8ur

    @cs-mi8ur

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mukhtarsyajaratun1025 gold and silver were the most valuable of any currency.Indian bankers were to the southern,central Asia and arab peninsula in 18th century what the rothschild were to Europe in the 19th century.

  • @Internut1985
    @Internut19852 жыл бұрын

    Mongols used Southern China against Northern China (Jurchens ) and when they succeeded they flip the script and used the North against the South. So basically the Chinese helped defeat each other. In fact during the wars , the Han Chinese banners who fought for the Mongols outnumbered the actual Mongols

  • @XuerLi

    @XuerLi

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are right, the major commanders sent by Yuan to conquer Southern Song were northern Chinese and even some defected southern Chinese generals, like Zhang Hongfan, Shi Tianze, because China is a culturally diverse vast land and peoples do not have a common national identity.

  • @Internut1985

    @Internut1985

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@XuerLi thank you ! And vice versa. The Southern Song helped the Mongols fight the “hated “ Jin dynasty in the North. Chinese history is fascinating. I am also very intrigued by the struggle between the settled “civilized” Chinese and the a “barbarian” nomads (Mongols, Turks ) . Greetings from Somalia 🇸🇴

  • @kentneiljumao-ascandido2409

    @kentneiljumao-ascandido2409

    2 жыл бұрын

    divided and conquer

  • @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj

    @user-qwertyuiopasdfghj

    Жыл бұрын

    Northern China is not Jurchen just conquered by Jurchens. At that time Jurchens and Song are enemies. Song hated Jurchens more than the mongols and always try to take back its old home territory aka central plain.

  • @sideriteadamantium4300

    @sideriteadamantium4300

    Жыл бұрын

    Back then, people did not have a strong conception of race or ethnicity. Also contrary to popular perceptions, the Mongols were not particularly brutal towards the Chinese. Most deaths in China occurred due to famine and disease (Black Death) during the Yuan dynasty

  • @mayazmahmud1740
    @mayazmahmud17402 жыл бұрын

    a really great topic to watch before using hui hui pao on song dynasty in Age of Empires 4

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz29642 жыл бұрын

    Nicely explained.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge63162 жыл бұрын

    A nicely informative video. Details pretty well how the Mongols were able to do what they did.

  • @panchokuan
    @panchokuan2 жыл бұрын

    Actually, historic official documents showed the Song knew they should aid Jin instead of corporating with mongols but the Song people refused to do so after many years war. And who raised aidding Jin in the court were attacked by political opponents…which left Song no choice as Jin would be conquered by mongols anyway.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un2 жыл бұрын

    Nice going, Genghis! I bet that will last, a long time- *COLLAPSES*

  • @miliba

    @miliba

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glorious Leader Kim!

  • @lolsmo395

    @lolsmo395

    2 жыл бұрын

    shutup kim

  • @Sovnarkom

    @Sovnarkom

    2 жыл бұрын

    glorious leader posts glorious comment. Lol and Mongolia!

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    2 жыл бұрын

    Longer than Alexander's

  • @kalebloshbough1551

    @kalebloshbough1551

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did your sister allow you to write that

  • @maxsheng8215
    @maxsheng82152 жыл бұрын

    The song Chinese fought well against the Mongols. Until the Mongols brought Trebuchet from the middle east to break their city walls at xiang yang. A major city on the Yangtze River.

  • @AXXXOLO
    @AXXXOLO2 жыл бұрын

    lmao the chinese literally thought they could use the mongols to deal with their enemies and then just simply deal with the mongols later

  • @Emilechen

    @Emilechen

    2 жыл бұрын

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ngke_Khan to be fair, Chinese deal with thr Mongols much better than many nations, at least Song Dynasty managed to killed thr Mongol emperor Mongke Khan in Diaoyu siege, dute to his death, Great Mongol Empire splits into four Khanates,

  • @eee9034

    @eee9034

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Emilechen and one of that khagnates ruled over china, right?

  • @thetkyaw6201

    @thetkyaw6201

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@eee9034 Yes and adopted the chinese tradition

  • @alvaro701

    @alvaro701

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Emilechen The Kanates exist since the creation of the Mongols empire. The Mongols split into different kingdom because of the push of Kublai khan against the elect Great Khan. Shame on him!

  • @auburntiger6829

    @auburntiger6829

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alvaro701 To be fair, most folks would’ve done the same. Kublai Khan did most of the dirty work of conquest in China, and what did the elected khan do? Why would you freely hand over someone something you worked so hard for over night, right? You would most likely take what you and your men fought and died for and keep it.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory2 жыл бұрын

    you got to admire just how impressive the Mongol army was

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Mongol Empire: "Knock knock." Dai Viet: "Who's there?" The Mongol Empire: "The mothertickling MONGOL EFFIN EMPIRE BEEATCH!" Dai Viet: "Oh. It's you. Go away." The Mongol Empire: "Are you DEAF!?" Dai Viet: "No. Yu is blind." The Mongol Empire: "I'm not blind. YOU blind!" Dai Viet: "That is what I just said!" The Mongol Empire: "You just said what!?" Dai Viet: "Exactly." The Mongol Empire: "All right, I'm tired of playing games! Prepare yourself to DIE!!!" Dai Viet: "Can't say Dai Viet without 'die'.... oh... wait!" The Mongol Empire: "You just jinxxed yourself, boi!" Dai Viet: "Whatever. Come at me with your best shot." The Mongol Empire: "My nerves are nervous from WRATH!" DIE!" Dai Viet: "Haha! You died in a filthy SWAMP!" ... oh... wait!" The Mongol Empire: "You got lucky thi time. NEXT TIME NOT!" Dai Viet: "Blah blah blah. Get lost!" The Mongol Empire: "I'm back!" Dai Viet: "Ha! You died in a stinkin' cesspool swamp AGAIN!" The Mongol Empire: "You have short-term memory. Stop dissing your country!" Dai Viet: "I have hordes of mosquitoes. You cannot defeat me!" The Mongol Empire: "Third time's a charm! OUr arrows will blot out the SUN TSU! See what I did there?" Dai Viet: "No. I' told you I'm blind. Regardles, we shall fight in the SHADE!" The Mongol Empire: "WAAAAAAAAAAA!!! WE DONE DIED A-GIN!!!!" Tune in next episode for when the mothertickling Mongol EFFIN Empire knocks on Egypt's door!

  • @carlneoh5843

    @carlneoh5843

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei meanwhile Japan: typhoon go brr

  • @NightPhoenix.Y

    @NightPhoenix.Y

    2 жыл бұрын

    They were impressive militarilly mainly due to them excepting help from other ppl in their war efforts .wana break chinese walls recruit chinese ppl, wana move to and invade russia ally with the local nomads, wana make siege on european castles get some turkish engineers to built trebuchets.

  • @micahistory

    @micahistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei lol

  • @bobafettman6941

    @bobafettman6941

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei Bro the Mongol Empire was a hollow shell of what it was when it tried taking Vietnam. 4- factors Disadvantage #1-Mongols wore heavy fur and in humid swamps with mosquitos and disease, considering the fact they come from cold climate it didn’t work in their favor Disadvantage #2-No clue of the region Disadvantage #3- No Genghis Khan Disadvantage #4- Mongol armies sent to Vietnam was only a small platoon and also shell of the what the empire once was If any one of those disadvantage was never there Vietnam sandal warriors would have easily gotten steam rolled like a dumpling 😂 Imagine sending the armies of the Four Khanates during its might to Vietnam 😂 Lol Viets think they tough because God gave them an inhospitable regional advantage. Viet: “We tough because of Jungle” Wait what if you don’t have jungle then what? Put a Viet on a flat plane of grass and let him fight a Mongolian, I wanna see who wins 😂 The Mongolian would use the Viet as his personal toothpick when he’s on his daily high protein diet Mongolian would look like a bodybuilder and the Viet would look like a malnourished child 😂🤣🤣🤣

  • @sixtails-
    @sixtails-2 жыл бұрын

    china did fall to mogolian eventually, but it took them 48 years to conquest. There were none a single country could hold on a resist against the mongolian that long, most of them fell within 2 months

  • @PrabirKrPal

    @PrabirKrPal

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just think, Khwarezmian Empire, was one of the strongest Empires at that time, with the cities of Urgench and Nishapur being some of the wealthiest cities of the world. But even with all that the Empire fell to the Mongols in three short years.

  • @SzHo-lz1rl

    @SzHo-lz1rl

    9 күн бұрын

    And this was based on the fact that China itself was in a state of division at that time. Otherwise, it would be impossible to be conquered so easily.

  • @User1754
    @User17542 жыл бұрын

    Many people don't understand how brutal the mongol empire was, If you were in china, or india. or other countries out there that were at war with the mongols at the past, You would see MOUNTAINS of dead bodys, heads on sticks. Its depressing

  • @alvaro701

    @alvaro701

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same with Europeans, Muslims Or Chinese. The world was brutal, at least the Mongols gave you an opportunity

  • @PrabirKrPal

    @PrabirKrPal

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's simple really, the mongols give their enemy two choices- 1) Surrender and you will be treated fairly and equally, and be part of the greater mongol empire. 2) Refuse, and your entire culture and city will be destroyed root and stem.

  • @User1754

    @User1754

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PrabirKrPal Correct

  • @fybrogen7473

    @fybrogen7473

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PrabirKrPal Those are like 2 choices you give to a kid having tantrum. One of the choices is the one you control, and the other one you benefit.

  • @joshuacondell1686

    @joshuacondell1686

    2 жыл бұрын

    Was no different from medieval European armies.

  • @tongmu5881
    @tongmu58812 жыл бұрын

    Mongolia is a historical accident. In 100 years, three powerful nomadic empires have emerged in the grasslands of northern China. The Han people (Song) lost the Great Wall and cavalry (horse-producing area) in continuous wars with them. After the rise of Mongolia, the army that concentrated in Arabia, Central Asia, and Europe destroyed Song in the war of attrition. (One city was besieged for forty years before surrendering). This is unique among nomads.

  • @history_people
    @history_people2 жыл бұрын

    Exelent animation, thanks

  • @vlacko
    @vlacko2 жыл бұрын

    Wanyan Yongji here 3:47 made the GREATEST MISTAKE of his life

  • @ElBandito
    @ElBandito2 жыл бұрын

    The exact video I was looking for. :)

  • @Usausausahkhk
    @Usausausahkhk2 жыл бұрын

    Note that Mongol swept through Asia to Europe in 10 years, yet at the time of Gengis Khan’s death, he could only conquer the smallest Kingdom of Xixia of China. The City of Xiang Yan stood in front of the Mongol seige for 10 years and the City of Diaoyu Shan was never captured. It was at Diaoyu Shan that Monge Khan was killed by the Song army. Mongolian conquest of China took more than seven decades of a deeply split country, and in nearly 50 years Mongols were fighting Song Dynasty. This illustrates the fact often neglected in Western history book: the East had been militarily more advanced than the West until the rise of the colonial empires. That was the reason why China defeated the Huns, and the Huns defeated Rome. And China conquered the Turks and the Turks defeated the Byzantines. But the table turned gradually in favor of the West since the 16th century, when different elements of the modern society was born in the West. In the end the modern society took over the Earth.

  • @froglifes6829

    @froglifes6829

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thats not true. The Mongol empire tried to invade Europe but was pushed out because the Europeans were too powerful and advanced... They lost a whole army of 30k people against Croatia. Thats just one example. Go learn history. Also the Huns didnt defeat the Romans.. They had battles where yes the Romans did lose sometimes but the collapse of their empire was not because of the Huns. You have read too much propaganda

  • @ttt9618

    @ttt9618

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@froglifes6829 wrong. Subutai defeated Europe and Russia with just a scouting army lol. Your European pope, france, byzantine used to send gifts to Mongol khan hence maintaining diplomacy. But after Mongol empire split up Mongols became weak hence came there defeat but in height of power Mongols were the strongest.

  • @froglifes6829

    @froglifes6829

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ttt9618 Go learn history. There is a reason why the Mongols couldnt make it to central or western Europe... Because they were not advanced or strong enough. Again over 30k mongols lost to Croats... You can say am wrong but you cant change history ;) go back to school and study instead of being stupid. if the Mongols were strong in the first place the empire wouldnt split up.. The mongols stood no chance against Europeans. They could only make it to ukraine... Again go learn history.

  • @giles4565

    @giles4565

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ttt9618 The Venetian crossbow men and long bows of Central and western Europe were far more powerful and longer range than anything the Mongols had. They failed to conquire Europe because of this

  • @Usausausahkhk

    @Usausausahkhk

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@froglifes6829 The Mongols did not go further into Europe because Gengis Khan died at He lan mountain in conquering Xixia, and the sons need to go back and elect the new great Khan. They did not go back because the weak resistance of the Europeans. Just go back and read how they sacked Kiev Russia and defeated Hungary. No real and serious history will say that the Mongol stopped because the Europeans pushed them back, despite the Europeans, especially the Hungarians fought bravely but got defeated. The second great Mongol expedition were called First Sons expedition. Again, the Egyptian Mamuluke victory, the only major victory against the Mongols was not the reason why the Mongols stopped. The Great Mongol Khan Monge was killed by Song firepower at Diaoyu Shan city. And Holaku khan was one of the candidates for the Great Khan and that was why he pulled army back to East Iran to seek the great khan position. Geghis Khan’s death in conquering Xiaxia and Monge Khan’s death in the war with Song were the reasons why the two Mongol western expedition stopped. By then, the Golden Horde Khandate was already at war with Holaku khan, and the Mongol civil war stopped the Mongols from further invasion into Europe. In the East, Diaoyu Shan city stood in front of the Mongol invaders for 36 years and did not fall. In comparison, the Western great cities usually fall in less than a week when facing a major invasion.

  • @rockyski2028
    @rockyski20282 жыл бұрын

    The biggest part is a lots of Han army surrendered and joined Mongols troop. Mongols also used Chinese dynasty name YUAN (元) to be part of China.

  • @kamiljan_ashiri
    @kamiljan_ashiri Жыл бұрын

    8:36 Territory of Chaghatai khanate is wrong there, it was much bigger

  • @cianmannion1752
    @cianmannion17522 жыл бұрын

    Im early yay love the videos and the lore learn more than i ever did in school

  • @cdab3192
    @cdab31922 жыл бұрын

    Nice work totally but some mistakes: 1,the appearance of the king of Xia and JINN is wrong,the video showed the clothes and hairstyle of Qing dynasty,the last chinese dynasty. 2,the position of Xiangyang is wrong. 3,the last battle between Song and Mongol empire happened in Yashan ,not Yamen

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory2 жыл бұрын

    it's crazy that the tiny Mongols were able to rule over such vast areas

  • @numeron509

    @numeron509

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nice tale

  • @micahistory

    @micahistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Kılıç same

  • @arolemaprarath6615

    @arolemaprarath6615

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Kılıç It didn't last a century but yes, they were very impressive. Greeks are the best!

  • @kerriwilson7732

    @kerriwilson7732

    2 жыл бұрын

    These weren't "tiny" Mongols. These were all "life-sized".

  • @micahistory

    @micahistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kerriwilson7732 ok karen

  • @jrexx2841
    @jrexx28412 жыл бұрын

    8:00 Ah yes, Mongke

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mongke Khan was the recinarnation of a Chinese general. China conquered China. Not the Mongols. Genghis Khanwas the preincarnation of Mao Zedong, obviously.

  • @meghna6223
    @meghna62232 жыл бұрын

    Nice Video ^_^

  • @FirstLast-di5sr
    @FirstLast-di5sr Жыл бұрын

    3:55 I guess that guy never heard of the concept of an existential threat 😂

  • @Clee-os6pv
    @Clee-os6pv2 жыл бұрын

    2:08 I already knew about this and learned from this already. The key advantage why the Mongols conquer China was they were disunited. And the Mongols came at a perfect time when China wasn't as one. Also China wasn't very strong at this point. EDIT: China has defeated the Mongols before just look at the Han-Xiongnu War 漢匈戰爭 in 133 BC.

  • @auburntiger6829

    @auburntiger6829

    2 жыл бұрын

    Song China would never have entered an alliance with the Jurchen Jin again after the Rape of Jingkang.

  • @PrabirKrPal

    @PrabirKrPal

    2 жыл бұрын

    China wasn't strong at this point. Lol!! China was disunited yes, but they were far from weak. During the mongol invasion, The Jin Empire alone managed to raise an army, that outnumbered the mongols Ten to One.

  • @fybrogen7473

    @fybrogen7473

    2 жыл бұрын

    Disunited or not, Mongols were outnumbered all the time. Just look at the battle of yehuling. 100k Mongol cavalry vs 1.4m Jin various troops and the great wall at their side.

  • @beautifullife1881

    @beautifullife1881

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you think Mongols are united? They are much more diverse than Chinese, but they know how to cooperate, not like Chinese.

  • @choikluivertchoi4635

    @choikluivertchoi4635

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beautifullife1881 Mongols are Chinese too. Lol.

  • @sinoroman
    @sinoroman2 жыл бұрын

    why did you choose those portraits for western xia and jurchen jin? those are qing pictures

  • @NightPhoenix.Y

    @NightPhoenix.Y

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah this 'documentary' is poorly written. Try this list instead kzread.info/head/PLaBYW76inbX6rwW39kRuJ-DvG4hE7vEFC

  • @ajsw-rt4yt
    @ajsw-rt4yt2 жыл бұрын

    Nice 👍🏼

  • @TRtraybloxeey
    @TRtraybloxeey2 жыл бұрын

    Bro do a series continuing this…

  • @DGronki
    @DGronki2 жыл бұрын

    I am interested in how Mongols conquer Lhasa and how/if they fight in such high altitude?

  • @6principlesforcartography61

    @6principlesforcartography61

    2 жыл бұрын

    No they didn't. Tibet surrendered before Mongols enter their land

  • @sansan2591

    @sansan2591

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@6principlesforcartography61 nope Tibetans actually fought against Mongols. Mongols sent Turko-Mongolic soldiers to defeat them

  • @6principlesforcartography61

    @6principlesforcartography61

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sansan2591 It was a border conflict, yet the Tibetan Lamas realized the strength of Mongols and chose to surrender before Mongols reached the the inner land. They made a treaty in Liangzhou (modern Wuwei in Gansu Province), where the Tibetans agree to pay taxes and allow Mongols to field army in their land.

  • @6principlesforcartography61

    @6principlesforcartography61

    2 жыл бұрын

    By the way, Lhasa was not the pollical center of Tibet though. It was Saskya, where the Pandita Lama lives. He was one of the religious leaders in Tibet. At that time, Tibet had been scattered into many small feudal lands and was not unified for centuries, with each feudal lords had only a few hundred soldiers.

  • @watchman835
    @watchman8352 жыл бұрын

    Based on how weak Mongol is today, how brutal Mongol was when they conquered and slaughtered their enemies, and how well they are perceived by people 1000 years later. I have reached a conclusion. That is *end justify means, history only favour winners.*

  • @gkdlmlnl7697

    @gkdlmlnl7697

    2 жыл бұрын

    China today is basically base on the Mongol n han assimilation

  • @Emilechen

    @Emilechen

    2 жыл бұрын

    event a the peak of Mongol Empire, Mongol warriors are powerful but thir economy in their homeland is still weak, so in their empire, Mongolian steppe's economy get marginalized by other region, once Mongol rulers and warriors lose and go back to heir homeland, thry will become poor agains, such is the question :s

  • @Emilechen

    @Emilechen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gkdlmlnl7697 not really, Mongol Yan dynasty didn't stay longtime in Chinese core land,

  • @arthas640

    @arthas640

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's because back then almost all men and boys between age 13 and 50 were trained and equited to fight. They all had horses, armor, spears, and most importantly bows. They lacked heavy infantry and most importantly engineers and skilled Smith's but China was weak and has always been willingy to serve anyone who sits on their imperial throne so when they rolled over so easily when the mongols invaded it provided the mongols with top quality enginees to build siege weapons, build siege works, build bridges, perform logistics, and it gave them Smith's to make top quality armor and weapons. Mongolia went into the war with China as a half decent army with many weak points but China rolling over so easily gave them everything they needed to March across the continent. Much like Rome during the western half of their empire collapsing; China was more focused on internal fighting then on external threats and it caused a global ripple.

  • @alvaro701

    @alvaro701

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe because there was a lot of propaganda against them. The Mongols weren't worse than any Chinese Muslim or European Kingdom

  • @ty814
    @ty8143 ай бұрын

    2 bloods I love most Emperor Charlemagne and Genghis. 1 pinch of blood from them you become a emperor material. Although Babur got most of his domains from being the descendant of Amir Timur also his legit claim on India was to have Lahore which his ancestor Timur conquered, Babur got his real legitimancy from being the descendant of Genghis .

  • @googane7755
    @googane77552 жыл бұрын

    The Song's fear of their military wasn't unfounded. As this video stated, there was a real fear of rebellion and there was a huge number of chinese already defecting to the mongols which only fueled this paranoia.

  • @user-kq5pj9py9c

    @user-kq5pj9py9c

    Жыл бұрын

    Central Asian countries, Europe and India were vulnerable, China resisted Mongolia for 70 years, the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty committed suicide

  • @damnedcarrot
    @damnedcarrot2 жыл бұрын

    Divide and conquer. Classic.

  • @therenomoregoodnames
    @therenomoregoodnames2 жыл бұрын

    Next video should be about an island nation for #TeamSeas

  • @yujielow1090
    @yujielow10902 жыл бұрын

    Didn’t mentioned the fall of Dali in this video. Would be nice to include them too.

  • @mr.wilson9941
    @mr.wilson99412 жыл бұрын

    As someone Who played total war medieval 2 i know why they were so formidable.

  • @ElBandito
    @ElBandito2 жыл бұрын

    Bunch of steppe nomads with bows and arrows took on nations which had 100 times their population, huge defensive cities, as well as early gunpowder weapons? The size of Mongols' balls! That feat was comparable to modern day Mongolia somehow defeating modern day Russia--impossibly amazing.

  • @kharlmichaelpura371

    @kharlmichaelpura371

    8 ай бұрын

    You realize that Mongol empire is a gun empire that can easily defeat and conquer Russia in a minute

  • @kharlmichaelpura371

    @kharlmichaelpura371

    8 ай бұрын

    Amazing how Russia is backward

  • @flawyerlawyertv7454
    @flawyerlawyertv7454 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! 😮

  • @Opmium
    @Opmium3 ай бұрын

    Mongol was a great lesson that unification and unity among states could gain you support and freedom

  • @amaerukaoru

    @amaerukaoru

    18 күн бұрын

    But a funny thing is that, after mongols conquered China, they ruled Chinese in an inadvertent way, which provided more freedom than a despotism in many Chinese dynasties 🤣🤣🤣 In Song dynasty's China, the status of women were much lower than Mongolian society... In Ming and Qing dynastie, people were not entitled to criticize the authority, but people could do this in Mongol's Yuan dynasty 😂

  • @khalee95
    @khalee952 жыл бұрын

    The Mongols may not have ruled long, but they did rule over kings, queens, princes and princesses. The king of kings.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory2 жыл бұрын

    It's crazy that such an old and massive civilisation was completely conquered by some nomads

  • @ephraimboateng5239

    @ephraimboateng5239

    2 жыл бұрын

    well, it makes sense when that civilisation was divided on itself while the mongols took their time to conquer bits of territory AND the locals were supporting them AND the Song Dynasty and a weak army while being attaked on 3 sides. If china would have been united, the mongols would've never conquered them, and if the song dynasty wasn't so paranoid of its own army, they probably wouldv'e resisted longer and even survive until the inevitable collaspe of the Yuan Dynasty

  • @sjohn1186

    @sjohn1186

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not some nomads, the strongest nomads in the whole human history.

  • @fromfareast3070

    @fromfareast3070

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sjohn1186 Follow by the jurchen Qing

  • @micahistory

    @micahistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Regular dude on internet. but the vikings didn't create a massive continent wide empire

  • @micahistory

    @micahistory

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ephraimboateng5239 yes

  • @kkgc5760
    @kkgc57602 жыл бұрын

    7:45 i read that in Oogway's voice lol

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs2712 жыл бұрын

    division weakens a nation unity strengthens a nation.

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam2 жыл бұрын

    Happy Mongolic noises Sad Tungusic, Sinitic and Tangut noises

  • @herzeg4912

    @herzeg4912

    2 жыл бұрын

    Her yerdesin

  • @papazataklaattiranimam

    @papazataklaattiranimam

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@herzeg4912 valla mı

  • @hassanabdulsalam1000

    @hassanabdulsalam1000

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@papazataklaattiranimam and sad turkic noises

  • @jxelus1274

    @jxelus1274

    2 жыл бұрын

    and Turkic shatuo song dynasty

  • @jxelus1274

    @jxelus1274

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sinitic- Goryeo and Dali kingdom got vassal to mongol.

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion2 жыл бұрын

    And to think this can be traced to Western Xia's refusal to give the military aid to Genghis Khan when he was going to invade Central Asia. I wonder what will happened if they actually willing to become allies instead.

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    2 жыл бұрын

    And if genghis died in childhood when his family was abandoned then his empire also wouldn't of been possible. Such is the butterfly effect...

  • @lordInquisitor

    @lordInquisitor

    2 жыл бұрын

    He would have thanked him right before invading his lands , look how he treated the other Chinese allies

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lordInquisitor It's so funny to me that everyone at the time was so eager to go to war as they each had their own plans of dominating the area. The khwarezm shah, the jurchen jin, the song, etc. What set the mongols out was that they were just better at it.

  • @lordInquisitor

    @lordInquisitor

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@googane7755 well better as in they were masters of tactics that the other powers had little knowledge off . I would bet that the biggest factors in Mongol success was the horse archer , fear and the fact that the open plain is basically custom made for horses and horse riders

  • @syhossp

    @syhossp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Genghis Khan will still invaded Jin. While Mongolia was not united, Jin raid the Mongol all the time. One of the Genghis Khan ancestor was murder by Jin. So Genghis Khan hate Jin and is determined to payback on what Jin done to his people.

  • @aminyt8742
    @aminyt87422 жыл бұрын

    They have Huge balls

  • @yesyes1842
    @yesyes18422 жыл бұрын

    To be more accurate, the "Song" dynasty is considered the Han chinese state at the time, with the Jin dynasty being foreign invaders. So the video showed the conquest of people that were ancestors to manchurians, other northern central asian states and then "China" during the Song battles. The Song did not team up with mongolians to fight other Chinese states, they considered the Manchurians to be invaders and thought they would be able to gain more of their homeland back by teaming up with the Mongols, in which they did accomplish initially....

  • @googane7755

    @googane7755

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah they were all considered foreigners by the Han Chinese which explains their unwillingness to co-operate and may have thought the Jin were just another barbarian state no different from the Mongols so the Song didn't care who they were screwing over.

  • @yesyes1842

    @yesyes1842

    Жыл бұрын

    Googane Your post reflects some deep stereotypes on the Han Chinese race. Keep in mind their country is being invaded by Manchurians and Mongols. There is no cooperation when your country is being invaded. Lol. They were making decisions based on what they feel is best to protect their country and Manchus arent chinese, that land isn’t theirs. Get it? Mongols promised (they lied) we’ll take our the manchurians and you’ll get your state back. Alot of ancient civilizations thought of outsiders as barbarians just like Rome did of the Germans. Youre saying the han chinese were wrong for being invaded and not cooperating, lol. Funny stuff.

  • @svdvan8797

    @svdvan8797

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes, Song is Han Chinese state, but Yuan is not. And then Ming is Han Chinese state but Qing is not. So that you can undrstand why there were so many rebels from civilians after Ming dynasty fell down.

  • @tritium1998
    @tritium19982 жыл бұрын

    A glaring omission about the Mongols invading Europe and the Middle East first, acquiring engineers and technology from there to fight in China.

  • @leogogo7041

    @leogogo7041

    2 жыл бұрын

    At that time, Europe's military and technology was just rubbish.

  • @jamesray1439

    @jamesray1439

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@leogogo7041 ok lol

  • @ost8123

    @ost8123

    2 жыл бұрын

    不!实际上是蒙古人掠夺走中国的工程师和武器,包括火药和枪炮,征服了西方世界。

  • @user-ht3ny2vw6i

    @user-ht3ny2vw6i

    3 ай бұрын

    Mongolia's rise is in the northern part of China, okay?

  • @hassanabdulsalam1000
    @hassanabdulsalam10002 жыл бұрын

    Just like how Rome conquered Greece

  • @dabome4001

    @dabome4001

    2 жыл бұрын

    How Rome conquered Greece? Im asking for real

  • @erik5303

    @erik5303

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dabome4001 By being allies with one greek city state and make them turn on another until they all were under Romes influence. Very simplified ofcourse.

  • @papazataklaattiranimam

    @papazataklaattiranimam

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sad Hellenes

  • @GlaciaDay

    @GlaciaDay

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also just like Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, some Mongols adopted Chinese culture as well then formed the Yuan Dynasty.

  • @papazataklaattiranimam

    @papazataklaattiranimam

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GlaciaDay Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic and Para-Mongolic nomads adopted Sinitic culture who ruled China

  • @tzl1117
    @tzl11174 ай бұрын

    Another observation is rarely any Chinese think Jin or Liao is China, but thinks Mongolian’s Yuan is. The fact is culturally and ethnically Jin and Liao is much more China than Yuan.

  • @eltonbritt1502
    @eltonbritt15027 ай бұрын

    States then can field hundreds of thousands of soldiers because of mandatory conscription and abject poverty. People were so poor that being in the army meant eating at least twice or thrice a day; so it doesn't take much coaxing to enlist men into the army. Although irregular, soldiers were also paid meager salaries and a share in the spoils.

  • @user-hf7ms9fy4e
    @user-hf7ms9fy4e Жыл бұрын

    1.1. The Jin people were the female real people who lived in the Heilongjiang region, a fishing and herding civilization, and were a subordinate tribe of the Khitan (Liao) in the early days. These female real people were not from the Joseon region. Because today's Korea and Korea in fact belonged to the Three Korean tribes during the Tang Dynasty, they joined forces with the Tang Dynasty to fight against Goguryeo (the successor of Wei's Korea, a nation of local tribes and Yan exiles) eventually forming Silla, which is the ancestor of today's Koreans and Korean people. 2. Before the rise of the Mongols, it was the Turkic people, the enemies of the Tang Dynasty, who controlled the Mongolian plateau, but after Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, wiped out the Eastern Turkic and Western Turkic peoples, a vacuum period arose in the nomadic plateau region. This land was successively contested by the Hui falcons, the Shatuo Turks, the Dang Xiang Qiang (also the ancestors of the Western Xia), and the Khitan. The final victors were the Khitan, who established the Liao Kingdom, but the Khitan, who already controlled northern China, did not want to return to nomadic areas. The Mongols emerged from this process, and Genghis Khan's great-grandfather, Hepbul Khan, united the various tribes and gave rise to the concept of the Mongols. Hebure Khan defeated the Khitan several times, but was forced to submit due to the huge power gap between the two sides. 3. AD1236-AD1242, the Mongols attacked the then many principalities of Rus' and defeated their allied forces. In AD1240-AD1241, this army led by Battuta, Speedy, Mongol, and Guiyu was divided into two groups and took amazing high speed maneuvers to surround and tempt the enemy deeper in the Battle of Legnica and the Battle of Tisza River to annihilate the main Hungarian and Polish armies. They also created false king's documents to deceive the nobles all over Hungary after attacking Hungary and occupying Pest and Bra. In AD1242, the Mongols invaded the Second Bulgarian Empire and Bulgaria became a vassal state of Mongolia. 4. Genghis Khan died before defeating the Southern Song Dynasty, and AD 1258, the Mongol Khan Mongol died in the Battle of Diaoyu Castle. In fact, the Mongols' fighting power was the most amazing in this period. The unique geography of Vietnam can also be seen here indeed while the battle of Ilkhanate against Mamluk, which represents the rapid decline of Mongol fighting power, took place in AD1281. It is important to mention here that the geography of the Vietnamese region and the strength of their resistance were equally impressive. AD 1257, AD 1284-AD 1288, the Mongol invasion of Vietnam, the Vietnamese Chen dynasty defeated the forces of the Yuan dynasty several times (this period saw a Mongol heir crisis after the death of Mongol, but at least nominally Kublai defeated the other contenders for the position of Mongol Khan, but except for The khanates outside Ilkhanate were not actually subservient. (At the same time he crowned himself Emperor of the Great Yuan.) . In war after war, the Yuan dynasty was surprised by the tenacity of Vietnam and began to increase its leverage. The Vietnamese Chen dynasty eventually became bitter at this endless invasion and was forced to choose to become a vassal state. The Mongols, on the other hand, turned their attention to Burma. 5. The Mongols are divided into many branches, the western Nai Mongols are Christian and followers of Nestorianism, while the eastern Muroves are descendants of the Xianbei people left over from the Han dynasty. The central and southern Mongols were under the command of Genghis Khan's Golden Family. The northern Mongols, on the other hand, were known to them as the Khalkha Mongols, and these northern Mongols were made up of tribes affiliated with the Mongols. This continues to this day, and since the secession of Mongolia from the Republic of China since World War II, their main population is the Khalkha Mongols. 6. We have to understand in any case that the rise of the Mongols in the 13th century was essentially a cataclysm. He was in no way inferior to the destruction of Arab civilization by the Turkic Ghulam, or to the destruction of Western Rome by the Huns and Goths and Vandals. Every civilization that resisted them should be proud of it.

  • @Godsmith_YT2998
    @Godsmith_YT29982 жыл бұрын

    Love you from india 🇮🇳

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann89692 жыл бұрын

    Through bribing, presents, gifts, and receptors yeah

  • @00jack80
    @00jack803 ай бұрын

    China's geographical location is relatively closed, and ancient Chinese believed that the world was composed of the Central Plains civilization world, northern nomadic peoples, southern tribes, and the distant West. Mongolia has played an important role in Chinese history and has always been a powerful opponent of the Central Plains dynasties

  • @Guardias
    @Guardias2 жыл бұрын

    No mention of the siege technology they imported from Europe? The siege tach that allowed them to conquer the most heavily fortified Song Strongholds?

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    2 жыл бұрын

    What exactly?

  • @zainmudassir2964

    @zainmudassir2964

    2 жыл бұрын

    A lot came from conquered Muslim territories especially Iraq

  • @bayanbatu6848

    @bayanbatu6848

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei Borrowed trebuchets from kingdom of Antioch

  • @PrabirKrPal

    @PrabirKrPal

    2 жыл бұрын

    No! They already had siege engines and gunpowder weaponry after they sacked Beijing.

  • @jannusetan8306

    @jannusetan8306

    2 жыл бұрын

    They get from Jin dynasty cannon and grenade

  • @KR-uq2ns
    @KR-uq2ns2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, only took mongols 45 years to conquer southern song with help of Chinese military adviser and scarification of one khan, who’s death stop its army march further into Europe.

  • @coffeemanx
    @coffeemanxАй бұрын

    Mongols were united. China was fragmented. Unity is true strength.

  • @if_iplaynowxd5620
    @if_iplaynowxd5620 Жыл бұрын

    Pov: your genghis khan speedruning asia to europe

  • @Justiceforall3799
    @Justiceforall37992 жыл бұрын

    The Mongol empire probably is the largest empire in human history. No other empire has conquered so much land areas as the Mongols did. The closest to it probably is the Russian empire, which was also part of the Mongol empire in the thirteenth century.

  • @zyanego3170

    @zyanego3170

    2 жыл бұрын

    The British Empire was bigger.

  • @zuzudernegger9721

    @zuzudernegger9721

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@zyanego3170 The British had guns and fought aborigines with boomerangs and stone axes. The Mongols fought equal and more advanced civilizations. The British never had much success conquering anything in Europe even when fighting agains lesser European countries. The British were really good at piracy not so much at warring but against Australian aborigines and Eskimos they were great!

  • @mint8648

    @mint8648

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@zuzudernegger9721 they did conquer more advanced civilizations like india, but only with banking money

  • @Justiceforall3799

    @Justiceforall3799

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@zyanego3170 the British empire occupied 25%of the land areas of the earth. Mongol empire occupied at least 1/3 of the land areas of the earth.

  • @zyanego3170

    @zyanego3170

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Justiceforall3799 Wrong.

  • @powerbar1981
    @powerbar19812 жыл бұрын

    Song : We have Mandate of Heaven Jin : We have a lot princess and bribes Xia : We have Xia Xia Xia... Mongols : Good, we have Chinese Engineers, European engineers, Specialists technologies. Advanced!! XIA XIAXIA first... Me : They did attack Xia Xia Xia LOL!!!

  • @lakshmipraveen8734
    @lakshmipraveen87342 жыл бұрын

    Sir, would you like to make video on Achaemenid Empire series after this Mongols Empire series, please Its my huge request...

  • @babak-shah5005

    @babak-shah5005

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hello sir, are you Indian? I wonder why you are so interested in the Acheamenid? Peace from Iran.

  • @lakshmipraveen8734

    @lakshmipraveen8734

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@babak-shah5005 Because I love Cyrus II and Darius I, Achaemenid Empire is one of the Greatest Empire all time, My favourite Ancient city was Persepolis which was build by non slave. because as you see the Cyrus cylinder which consider as first Human rights, they are done many beautiful projects like Royal road, second Jewish temple, Canal of the Pharaohs (Suez Canal) and many more..., its an Diversed Empire with Multicultures and with Multiple peoples. I love Achaemenids!!!

  • @lakshmipraveen8734

    @lakshmipraveen8734

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@babak-shah5005 Yes, I am Indian. you?

  • @babak-shah5005

    @babak-shah5005

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lakshmipraveen8734 wow thats very nice that you know so much about my beautyfull country and history. I am from Iran sir. I want to visit the ruins of Persepolis. Since when are you intrested in Iran or Iran's history and how did that start? I am curious to know. Much respect

  • @lakshmipraveen8734

    @lakshmipraveen8734

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@babak-shah5005 When I was research Great Empires and Cultures, Only Achaemenid Empire has Infuenced me. because you people have Greatest and Successful Administration and Religions.

  • @MBP1918
    @MBP19182 жыл бұрын

    Interesting

  • @victorye7150
    @victorye71502 жыл бұрын

    In short ! The Chinese assisted mongols conquer their own nation.

  • @Shaunt1
    @Shaunt12 жыл бұрын

    Wow.

  • @hyltoniali257
    @hyltoniali2572 жыл бұрын

    How Mongols united Gobi steppe: Temujin exploited OngKhan of Keraits, his orth father's strength How Mongols defeated Jin main force at Yehuling: Jin troops didn't use their advantage in numbers, too dispersed, HuShahu ran with his reinforcement How XiLiao (Kara khitai) got annexed: Exploited internal conflict: Kuchalug overthrowal Why Tangut populations are mostly wiped out: XiXia concubine bit off Temujin's genital...jk, they failed to aid Mongol with reinforcement on their Western conquest & Temujin's benefactor: Heda'An was killed by XiXia border guards Why did Song's last stand fail? Chinese attacked by more surrendered Chinese

  • @messier8379
    @messier83792 жыл бұрын

    Mongols invasion of Jin and Song is like the Eastern Version of Arab invasion of war torn Sassanid and Byzantium

  • @williamrobert9898

    @williamrobert9898

    Жыл бұрын

    Idk about that tbh

  • @messier8379

    @messier8379

    Жыл бұрын

    @@williamrobert9898 Jin and Song Dynasties were in War for Centuries.....both Dynasties can't cooperate when the Mongols Invaded.. The Mongols promised Song Alliance in exchange of helping attacking Jin.. But 40 years later the Mongols Still invaded Song .also Song Military are very Neglected by their Emperor

  • @BritskNguyen
    @BritskNguyen2 жыл бұрын

    Q in chinese pinyin is not pronounced /k/ . Its closer to ch in english word "church". So Qin dynasty is pronounced like Chin, not Kin

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pinyin is dumb, or whatever that system is.

  • @BritskNguyen

    @BritskNguyen

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@scintillam_dei agree. Cant be helped because China gonna chine, potato gotta potate

  • @svdvan8797

    @svdvan8797

    10 ай бұрын

    Qin is not easy to pronounce for whoese mother language is English.

  • @psychofury6485
    @psychofury6485 Жыл бұрын

    Marco polo series is great, and has the conquest of china in it

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican2 жыл бұрын

    When you had so many children that 16 million people are related to you: *I am aware of the effect I have on human population*

  • @pottsie_era

    @pottsie_era

    2 жыл бұрын

    those 16 Million people should start a new dynasty.

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    2 жыл бұрын

    I cringe whenever I see the gay US of AIDS flag. See my video proving the US funds ISIS. The US should fall, and will, thank God.

  • @arolemaprarath6615

    @arolemaprarath6615

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm one of them. Sending regards to my 16 mllion relatives and in counting!

  • @iskambillordu
    @iskambillordu2 жыл бұрын

    How mongol empire builded: Mongol: we going to raid wes- Turk: im in before u say it - Mongol empire established -

  • @efficient64
    @efficient642 жыл бұрын

    Basically the entire mongol army: bunch of dudes riding horses

  • @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164
    @exposingproxystalkingorgan41642 жыл бұрын

    Divide and conquer is as classic political tactic from all places and time periods.

  • @jacktapman5293
    @jacktapman52932 жыл бұрын

    I always wondered how they got so powerful

  • @sukhmandeepsingh7836

    @sukhmandeepsingh7836

    2 жыл бұрын

    They were quick in fighting as compared to their rivals and attacked very fast and swiftly

  • @scintillam_dei

    @scintillam_dei

    2 жыл бұрын

    'Cause DEVS VVLT.

  • @zainmudassir2964

    @zainmudassir2964

    2 жыл бұрын

    Like the Romans they adapted quickly and used skills of people they conquered. Muslim Engineers they captured from modern day Iraq built siege engines used to capture many Chinese cities for example.

  • @ICCraider

    @ICCraider

    2 жыл бұрын

    Meritocracy and Chinese(later Muslim) engineers. Thanks to meritocracy the Mongol army's officer corps was comparable to that of the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war which means they were over 600 years ahead of their time. And then the Chinese and Muslim engineers that made their medieval blitzing of cities possible. EDIT: A typical Mongol army of 5 tumen or 50,000 during Genghis' invasion of Khwarezmia had 3,000 scorpios and 1,000 catapults. In comparison a typical Roman legion(roughly 5,000 men) had 60 scorpios. Which means the Mongols had more than 5 times more artillery pieces than the famed Romans.

  • @ICCraider

    @ICCraider

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Kılıç Agreed. But that isn't unique to the Mongols. Almost every major empire used the technologies of the conquered and learned from them. But Meritocracy *was* unique to the Mongols for 600 years until Napoleon's major military reforms. But the Mongol military stopped being purely meritocratic after Ogodei's death. Due to the chaotic political climate, later khans started promoting children of powerful nobles and eventually made the Mongol military as weak as any other. Also the failure to leave proper military manuals meant that the innovations of a general often died with him.

  • @leeben7605
    @leeben76052 жыл бұрын

    蒙哥died in battle of dianyucheng nowadays sichuan. Thats triggered fall of Mongol empire. If 蒙哥 didnt die, Europe will be swiped away.

  • @jamesray1439

    @jamesray1439

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well that didn’t happen but European colonialism of China happened for several hundreds of years.

  • @DucaTech

    @DucaTech

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jamesray1439 They did? How come the Chinese are not speaking English like other colonies?

  • @jamesray1439

    @jamesray1439

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DucaTech are you drugs? Hong Kong until the 90’s was European colony, Taiwan is still ostensibly a colony. And there is no lack of English speakers in China.

  • @svdvan8797

    @svdvan8797

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@jamesray1439 China not speak English bro😂, can you tell me anywhere in this world that there's no people can speak English?

  • @svdvan8797

    @svdvan8797

    10 ай бұрын

    Diaoyucheng not dianyucheng. My home town, toasted fish is famous, welcome to travel.

  • @sylvainduret9880
    @sylvainduret98802 жыл бұрын

    *Take notes*

  • @mackzun
    @mackzun2 жыл бұрын

    mmm good video

  • @agathonchristianto9580
    @agathonchristianto95802 жыл бұрын

    The most logical explanation of why the mongol can conquer chinese dynasty which have plenty of heavily fortified city is that the mongol is waging a war of attrition. First, the mongol army (that consist mostly of lightly armored cavalry archer) can easily harrassed the chinese army while also avoiding pitched battle with the chinese army by doing hit and run tactic. The chinese army that have no answer to that will become demoralized and will seek shelter behind walled city to avoid being harrassed further. Second, the mongol will pillage and loot the countryside and lightly fortified/defended city not only to obtain loot and food supply for themselves but also to drive/herd the mass populace to take shelter inside a walled city. After that they just need to wait for those city that was overpopulated by the refugee to either starve themselves to death simply surrender. That would explain why a lot of city defender easily surenderred against the invader. Because by the time they open their gate to invite the masses their fate was sealed. Instead of the mongol they will face food shortages and the possible threat from starved soldier and civilian mutiny instead.

  • @leexingha

    @leexingha

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Kılıç "lack of true combat skill and physical stamina was their biggest weakness" - you must be high on drugs

  • @froglifes6829

    @froglifes6829

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@leexingha What he said isnt completly false. China has relied on the fact that they have more men many times in history,and when it does not go their way countless of men die. Not to mention the Chinese were lacking combat experience and skill when fighting the Mongals.

  • @leexingha

    @leexingha

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@froglifes6829 having more numbers in war is always an advantage exploited by anyone

  • @froglifes6829

    @froglifes6829

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@leexingha Yes and do you know which country on Earth has had and has currently the most people? China even now exploits its people. Thats how China stays rich. But its not exploited by everyone. Thats where you are wrong.

  • @NightPhoenix.Y

    @NightPhoenix.Y

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pretty much after the collapse of the xixia the mongols already have access to chinese ppl who are knowledgable in siege warfare. And after many chinese and proto-machu ppl defected from the jin, they had a substantial amount of infantry and siege engineers to back up their light calvalry and after the fall of Kaifeng, they have access to gunpowder. Arabic and european scholars at the time the ones to survive the mogols raids into europe staited that the mongols used 'greekfire' and 'chinese arrows' in their battles to burn anyone and everything in their way. Only castles on high up mountains were safe. The mongols were effective mainly due to them using the enemy against the enemy as they recruited almost anyone to fight with them from koreans to turks. Tho they do have their short comings it took them 44 years to break Song defenses (the song lasted longer than anyone else) and they took the worse time to invade Japan, when the seas and weather was calm which is a sign a typhoon is coming ya know calm before the storm.

  • @lt419
    @lt4192 жыл бұрын

    The secrets of only thousands of Mongolian nomads conquering country of millions such as China is in their nourishing good diet- meat and milk, which gave them good stamina, plus the harsh step climate coupled with extensive physical labour, such as horse riding since childhood.

  • @powasjington4262
    @powasjington42626 ай бұрын

    Yuan dynasty is underrated

  • @theofficialsydtoker2651
    @theofficialsydtoker26512 жыл бұрын

    Ooh i like

  • @armchairwarrior963
    @armchairwarrior9632 жыл бұрын

    China had better tech, but Mongols had better warriors and strategy.

  • @user-me4zj4jo8t

    @user-me4zj4jo8t

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Cengez han actually, it was richest dynasty of China.it was also golden age for tech, like gunpowder,printing.Song dynasty fall because of corruption

  • @Clee-os6pv

    @Clee-os6pv

    2 жыл бұрын

    +@Cengez han : Are you for real? Pretty sure Gunpowder, Compass, Printing Press, and Paper. The 4 great inventions came from China.

  • @user-ht3ny2vw6i
    @user-ht3ny2vw6i3 ай бұрын

    Europe was in a state where tens of thousands of people were one country before the arrival of the Mongols. The Mongols brought Eastern military and technological ideas and culture, leading to technological progress in Europe. There is no coincidence in history, and everything is the best arrangement.

  • @cs_fl5048
    @cs_fl50482 жыл бұрын

    I think this bit of history is, as you say, quite simplified, but ok. The bigger lack, maybe covered elsewhere? is that you didn't explain how the Mongols, also a collection of various tribal groups, were unified in the first place. They had been suppressed by the various Chinese dynasties for a few hundred years before they were able to effectively unite. This might be a good story as well. Further, how the FALL of this empire happened is another good story.

  • @protestantwarrior1516

    @protestantwarrior1516

    2 жыл бұрын

    Chinese never surppressed the Mongols. The Chinese paid tributes to Mongols and their predessors for centuries.

  • @QWERTY-gp8fd

    @QWERTY-gp8fd

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@protestantwarrior1516 nope they suppressed mongols. ambaghai khan was purged by jin.

  • @protestantwarrior1516

    @protestantwarrior1516

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@QWERTY-gp8fd jurchens are not chinese. China was invaded by them.

  • @ruiwang8024

    @ruiwang8024

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@protestantwarrior1516 Apparently the North Song dynasty was the dynasty in which China started pay tributes to Mongols and it in total lasted only two centuries.

  • @user-ob2kh7cw2f

    @user-ob2kh7cw2f

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@protestantwarrior1516 The Qing Dynasty established by the Jurchen is the first country in Chinese history to call itself China. Historically speaking, the country name of China came from the Qing Dynasty, and modern China continues to use this country name, so the Jurchen is of course Chinese.