Mongolia used to be really sparsely inhabited in Middle Ages.

It helps when the whole country can just moves the fuck out and attacks you.

>>991516
Was it really sparsely populated? What was Mongolia's population?

It was mostly Turkic steppe folk that did most of the fighting.

Mongolia wasnt ~~that~~ sparsely populated in the middle ages*, it had a population boom and wouldn't reach those levels again until the 20th century.

The how is he united an area the size of france to poland and everything inbetween and because of the lifestyle a relatively large proportion of the male population were able to go to war as real soldiers and not a two bit militia.

He then padded his armies out with the other steppe groups and small numbers of specialised 'civilised' troops.
*I mean it was still sparsely populated but compared to the rest of the world it was much closer than todays numbers would suggest. In 1200 it had a population of around 2m while china had a pop of around 40m. Compared to today where they have a population of 2.8m vs 1.3billion.

>>991581
t*rkroach detected

>>991631
The great majority of Steppenigs were Turkic in origin m8.

>>991516
>other countries had nothing against?
Meme.

>>991581
WE

Because of their lifestyle, basically the entire population (even the women!) were skilled horsemen and archers who were used to large scale coordination, long distance travel, and living off the land. Compare to most nations where 98% were peasant farmers.

>>991516
There's a reason we call those armies Mongolian and not Mongol. The Mongols had an extremely efficient system of agglomerating enormous hordes of horsemen from other peoples.

ITT: literally no one knows or apparently cares about how large mongol population actually was, except for one moron who thinks China's population was 40 mil in 1200. At least he's trying.

Well, he left the lands under his control pretty much empty of all military forces. And the Mongols often had less soldiers than their opponents.

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>>991736

Lazy fuck just google china historical population.


~60 mil.

>>991631
t*rk =/= turkic

>>991516
Current Mongolia is not the same as the Mongolia from the Middle Ages.

The Mongols of the invasions were Russian Cossacks, the cavalry division of the Russian empire.

>>992241
WE WUZ MOGOLZ AND SHIEEET!

>>992806
You're an idiot.

>>993108
you too

>>991581
Yeah, this is mostly true. I only know this for the Western campaigns though.

>>991516
Because the entire population was militarized and available to fight, and could be seamlessly integrated into he army.


This is the same thing that allowed EVERY nomad horde riding steppe ponies to achieve so much success.

They were a curse sent by God. Ghengis Khan stated it himself and the Pope referee to them as Gods scourge on the earth.