Tell about Mongol Empire ?

There are various contemporary claims about their remarkable visual skills, which include an account of a Mongol catching an enemy hiding behind bushes up to four miles away, and the ability to distinguish between animals and humans from 18 miles away.

The Mongols mastered the use of the bow and arrow, but when they went to battle they didn’t use just one type of arrow.

In the late 1200’s, a Venetian explorer named Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel what would later be called “The Silk Road” to China.

Their composite bow was capable of shooting over 750 feet with 116 lbs of pull, and they utilized both light and heavy arrows, depending on the occasion.

Polo, together with his father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo, traveled to China to visit Kublai Khan, the then-ruler of the Mongol Empire.

While their contemporaries perceived the Mongols as having a massive horde of warriors on the battlefield, this was due to superior deployment strategies as they were actually outnumbered in most battles.

The Silk Road was a series of interconnected trade routes through various regions of the Eurasian continent, mainly connecting China with Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. It extended over 5,000 miles on land and sea, laying the trade foundation for the modern world.

Mongols used a mixture of evolved mobility skills and enveloping strategies to encircle their enemies, making these enemies believe they were outnumbered and using the fear this caused to their advantage.

In his writings, he explained that Kublai Khan was delighted with the Polo’s, listened eagerly to all they shared about the Western world, and sent them back as envoys to the Pope.

When Genghis Khan invaded China, the Jin Dynasty boasted the largest army in the world with over 1 million soldiers.

That didn’t mean anything to the hungry Mongols, and their army of 90,000 laid waste to over 500,000 Chinese on route to gaining control over Northern China.

The “Great Khan” wrote letters to the Pope and requested he send a large body of educated men to instruct the Mongol Empire in the ways of the West and Christianity.

The Mongols also deployed strategies of deceit to convince their enemies they possessed more soldiers than they really did. Many warriors had up to 6 horses with them on each campaign, and they would place stuffed dummies atop many of these horses.

This is a pretty amazing moment in world history. The grandson of Genghis Khan and the leader of the largest empire ever assembled in human history issues an open invitation to the Pope in Rome to come help Westernize and Christianize the remaining known world of the time.

They would also tie sticks to their horse’s tails, in order to raise great dust clouds and make the enemy believe a large swath of reinforcements were storming them.

Mongol Empire – A Missed Opportunity for the World
In November of 1268, after three long years of travel, the Polo’s arrived in Rome, letters of Kublai Khan in hand. The only problem is that Pope Clement IV has just died and it would be more than two years before a new Pope was named.

the new Pope, Gregory X, did not fulfill the request from Kublai Khan. Instead, Pope Gregory sent gifts, letters, and two (not 100) well-educated friars back to the Great Khan. However, on their way to China, they fell into a war zone on the outskirts of the shrinking Mongol Empire.

Muslim warriors, operating under the Sultan of Egypt, had captured the most important centers of Armenia and were slaughtering the local inhabitants. The Polo’s were a bit more accustomed to the dangers of this trade route

The Mongol Empire later fell, China eventually turned to Buddhism, a rising Islamic threat virtually closed the Silk Road, and trade with Europe was restricted to the sea. Finally, in 1452, when Christopher Columbus was a mere lad of one-year-old

The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, a Mongol political and military leader who sometimes brutally conquered and united the Mongol tribes.

The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, a Mongol political and military leader who sometimes brutally conquered and united the Mongol tribes.

Between AD 1206, when Temujin received his title as Genghis Khan (“Ruler”), and AD 1370, when the last emperor in China’s Yuan Dynasty died in exile,

the Mongol “Khagan” (“Great Khans” or “Emperors”) established the largest contiguous empire in world history.

At its height, the Mongol Empire covered large parts of modern-day China, Mongolia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Moldova, South Korea, North Korea, and Kuwait.

After the death of Genghis Khan in 1227, the Mongol Empire grew even larger under his son, Tushi, and grandson, Kublai Khan, who established the Yuan Dynasty in China through at least 22 legitimate sons.