>Primitive steppe nomads. >Suddenly, Genghis Khan! >Go

Horse archers

>>2995757
>>Go full khorne.
Nah that was Timur the Lame, dude built towers of skulls out of his enemies.

>>2995757
>lasted barely a century
Ayyyy

>>2995770
>Three times as long as Alexander
>Didn't need daddys army to do it

>Primitive
They had the best military organization in the world, their horses were bred to perfection and they had so many herds with them they could migrate to south Africa without starving.

They weren't primitive my niggy and they were going against corrupt nations and petty warmongering aristocrats, the game was rigged from the start.

>>2995757
What's khorne?

>>2995808
the god of rage, blood, violence in warhammer.

Blood for the blood god!!!!!!
Skulls of the skull throne!!!!!

>>2995821
Sounds homosexuelle

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>>2995767
The monglos where the original skull pyramid builders, Timur was just honoring the traditions. In percentage of world population killed, the mongols hold the all time record.

>ywn bring 20 left ears to your Khan to prove you carried out your massacre
>ywn sack Baghdad with your bros
>ywn rape southern Chinese qts

>>2995829
That one is Slaanesh.

>>2995757
why didn't mongols conquer india?
did they fear the black warrior?

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>>2996657
*blocked their path*

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>>2996657
But they did.

>>2995757
>primitive steppe nomads united against other primitive steppe nomads and some chinks
How impressive.

>>2995783
The whole Hellenistic period is Alexander's doing.

>Didn't need daddys army to do it
Genghis Khan's father did play a role in his rise to power.

>>2997715
>turks are mongols
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>2997715

are you retarded?

>>2997743
>>2997746
>established and ruled by a Muslim Turco-Mongol dynasty of Chagatai origin from Central Asia

>>2997712
>rajputana remaining unconquered while the rest of asia falls
based

>>2997743
You know, it'd be nice to understand the difference between turkic people and mongol people but I'm afraid I'm too dumb to.

>>2995757
They mastered travel by horse up to a point where they could travel 500 kilometers a day. We didn't hit such numbers untill the 20th century. They did that in the 13th.

>>2995757
>>Primitive steppe nomads.
this is where you are mistaken
these were northern peoples with a 1500 year old civilization/culture before 13th century. there is a very long line of states and empires before the mongolian empire. not all of them were nomadic and they were well versed in the art of warfare
the turkic nomads(%80 of the mongolian army) were known as some of the best soldiers during this period and the mongolian generals were some of the best in history

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>>2997779
their descendant almost finished their job

>>2997741
>primitive steppe nomads united against other primitive steppe nomads and some chinks

China was arguably the most advanced nation on earth at the time even though it was divided. Likwise they smashed the Persians the States of the Middle East.

>Genghis Khan's father did play a role in his rise to power.

Be that as it may he played a much smaller one than Philip did with Alexander. With Genghis his father died when Genghis was 9 and Genghis's and his mother + siblings were literally exiled and he was even briefly enslaved.

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>>2997749
...and Babur saw himself as a Muslim Persiaboo Aristocrat and not a steppenig. Mongols in the 16th Century were seen as barbarians by everyone in Asia. Including their settled descendants who have long since adopted other identities.

>"Were the Mongol race angels, they would (still) be evil; Written in gold, the name Mughul would (still) be bad."
>"Do not harvest crops from a Mongol field. For whatever borne of Mongol seed has a bad yield."
Poems written by Babur in the Baburnama, his autobiography. Written back when he was a prince in Ferghana suffering raids from Steppenigs.

>>2997854
Why didn't they bother to take the southernmost part of India?

>>2995783
>Mongol Empire
>15 minutes of fame and nothing again after that

>>2997887
>Likwise they smashed the Persians the States of the Middle East
Are you retarded? Persia and several other parts and areas of western Asia, the Near East and Central Asia were under the complete control of the Khwarazmian dynasty, Persianized Turkics who replaced the Afghrids and came in after the end of the Iranian Intermezzo period (roughly 300 years of Iranian military and socio-political independence after the fall of the Sassanids to Rashidun Caliphate), there is no way any Persian/Iranian kingdom or state at this point was militarily powerful. The Khwarmazian Shahs had already been in power for roughly 200 years by the time they antagonized the Mongols so your comparison is dumb.

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>>2997854
>their descendant almost finished their job
It depends on what you mean. A lot of Rajputs converted to Islam, fought for the Mughal empire and formed a decent chunk of the nobility unlike the Delhi Sultanate which was always alien.
>>2997898
I get what you mean. They were culturally Persian but it's not like he threw away his heritage entirely. He was ethnically Turco-Mongol.

>>2995757
When you win a battle and get nice loot, you can buy more nice stuff, and more troops flock to your banner.

Because you're now richer and have a bigger army, you can defeat greater opponents and get more loot. This makes you even richer and draws even more men to your banner.

This continues ad infinitum until the conquest stops, or the leader dies and a power struggle ensues. That's how the Mongols blew up so fast. It wasn't because of Genghis Khan specifically, any competent leader and general would have achieved the same inevitable result.

>>2995757
>What went right?
Subutai

Nigga is underrated as fuck cause of the meme that mongols just zerg rushed with superior numbers when half of the time it wasn't even the case.

>>2995757
Echo of Finno-Korean war.

>>2997913
Important harbor towns (you can see Goa on the western coast, still not annexed) that were vital to trade and thus protected by European powers who would have thrown a fucking fit if they tried to mess with it too much

>>2995757
- Extremely mobile army that was surprisingly large since more or less every able-bodied man was a potential soldier with a lifetime's experience with a bow and on the saddle.
- Great terrain, open steppes suit their style of warfare and its proximity allowed for ease of replenishment after raids and conquests.
- Very pragmatic mindset - no tactic is too dirty or dishonourable, there is only honour in victory which is to be achieved by any means. Open to new, superior ideas.
- Meritocracy. Arguable one of the most important contributing factors to their military and bureaucratic success. Enemies were spared and assimilated into the hordes and talent was allowed to rise to the top.
- Related to the previous point, but good and ruthless leadership that shared a common vision.

>>2995757
Nothing. Still no explanation how huge horde could be supplied in empty lands, including decerts, mountains, thick forests.

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>>2995821
>>2995808
SKULLS *FOR* THE SKULL THRONE, YOU INBRED MORON

>>2997712
POO

>>2999664
SKULLS FOR THE THRONE OF BONE

And I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan
On the frozen Mongol steppe while at his height

>>2999047
It's not like they feared pissing them off. It's that were important for trade relations which saved them from getting Horde'd back then.

>>2995757
The steppe peoples are subhumans that didnt have the genetic mental capacity for civilization.

Name one thing any steppe tribe invented.

>>2995783
Three times as much nothingness. It's easy to conquer something that's unoccupied. The Mongol "Empire" consisted of 90% barren waste land that no one lived on anyway. Compare with Rome, every bit of which was occupied by formidable peoples.

>>2997913
Too little poo in loo

>>3000360
>consisted of 90% barren waste land
So China and Persia are completely barren?

>>2995757
Tbqh the will of one man: Temujin.

Who like muhmmad thought god had chosen him to conquer the world.

>>3000356
Domesticating the horse and being responsible for linking the west and east through trade and ideas.

>>3000481
Why doesn't he get a world religion then.

>>2998196
>defeating multiple states across Persia and the Middle East isn't itself impressive even if they were militarily weak compared to the Mongols.

>>2997913
Tamil kings (probably merchants)

>>2999000
Double trips confirm

>>2999681
IN

>>3000564
2late

>>2997779

They also stopped Alexander.

>>2998210
Dynastic heritage, not Ethnic.

>>3000360
>mongol conquests killed 40 million people
>killed a greater % of the world than in wwii or wwi
>china, persia, the middle east, india
>barren
back to /pol/

>>3000458
By the time the Mongols had full control of China they've already split into various khanates so that doesn't really count.