Why didn't Mongols just conquer all of the world? Did they

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>>3044974
Incompetent grandsons

That's a shitload of territory to cover

Did the mongols do anything with their empire besides rape and pillage. Asking for a friend.

>>3044974
They tried but simply couldn't hold the territory

Even their super well kept road system didn't allow for fast enough communication and the empire split into 5 nominally independent states held by tradition under the banner of mongolian china

there was no real civil war amongst the mongol states for supremacy, or any real separatist movements beyond that one fucktard grandson who lived in the original mongol territories. After the ruling grandson died they had a small civil war that made everyone stop conquering the world. This led them to the realization that abandoning the territories you ruled over to participate on a minor civil succession conflict half the world away was a very inneficient thing, so empire naturally split into 5 territories / hordes / centralised warbands. These 5 kingdoms gradually forgot the ties and even existance of each other and only communicated with the closest neighbors to trade on occasion.

Temüjin basically won the game of empires. He and his kids achieved the highest possible extent a medieval land based empire could achieve and his empire gradually dissaembled to do their own thing.

>>3045003
they build extremely efficient trade and roads system and terrified it's subjects to the point they wouldn't even dare to rob the roads (look up pax mongolica)

They also build extremely rich capital cities in mongolia proper, but these were retaken by the steppes as soon as the empire diluted and the eastern seat of command was transfered to mainland china. In terms of tech and medicine, the amount of imported artisans arguably made them the most tehcnologically diverse nation on earth at the time, though I don't know about any technologic or social innovations on their part.

>>3044974
They conquered the Song and Khwarezmia, while either one of these feats is incredibly impressive, the rest of the land shown was pretty irrelevant.
They're conquests were always tenuous too, authority being predicated on fear and violence. They were still highly parochial nomadic peoples with frivolous allegiances to others and the land they occupied.
Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Western China and Siberia is what? 1/2 their empire?
Horde tactics were basically unbeatable, the reason they weren't such an enormous problem up until then is because they didn't coagulate under the Great Khan.
As soon as he died, there empire was running on empty.