Why did Mongolia become that guy you used to hang out with in

Anyone got an answer?

>>2390465
People eventually started calling him out on his rape and murder

>>2390465
Mongolia will rise again, they just need a new Genghis.

>>2390465
His parents got divorced, then he started hanging out with the bad kids. Last I heard he was in jail.

Steppe nomads got a lot less OP when gunpowder entered the picture.

As time went on, more and more Mongols/Turks settled down into a non-nomadic life. It was that life itself that made Steppe Nomads the unstoppable military force they were in the 13th c. Once they turned their backs on the harsh life of their ancestors, they became equals to any other army.

Furthermore, as time continued to pass, the Mongolian Empire imploded into 4 sub units.

The Ilkhanate in Persia/Mesopotamia converted to Islam, fought with the other Mongolian successor states, and eventually imploded into serveral Emirates due to succession crisises around the year 1350. These guys were quickly replaced by local regimes, and then the Timurids, who in turn imploded due to succession crisises, and so on.

The Golden Horde, in the Pontic Steppe, managed to hold onto its control over the disparate Russian fiefdoms until they pussed out at the Great Stand on the Ugra river, letting them go free. They still fucked around on the Steppes for a few years before their own succession crisises turned into another set of weaker Khanates that the Russians slowly picked off one by one (the Crimean Khanate wasn't finished off until the late 1700s).

The Chagtai Empire just kinda fucked around in Central Asia until the Dzunghars (the last Mongolian Empire) decided to kick their sedentary asses.

Finally, the Yuan Dynasty slowly became over-Sinicized, until the subjugated Chinese people rose in rebellion and the Mongols ran back home to the Steppes like cowards. They were still a threat for awhile, but eventually infighting amongst clans broke the Northern Yuan Dynasty into weaker units.

Why didn't all those tiny states reunify into a big Mongol Empire? Usually due to outside manipulation, other states weren't really keen on seeing another powerful Steppe Confederation fighting for power. Tactics also changed over time, favoring fortified positions the Nomadic Armies couldn't easily penetrate, as well as the effective use of gunpowder, pike, and armor in the 16th c.

>>2390465
Cavalry in warfare became much less important.

>>2390465
because the Mongols were a bunch of literally who's until Genghis and his empire was mostly Turkic with his Mongol bannerman at the helm. The spread of Turkic society and it's synthesis with Persian culture is probably the Mongol's greatest legacy.

>>2391264
>what are the xiongnu way before the 1200s

>>2390835
No