The Mongols and Europe

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23409447
AutoresPeter Jackson (0000-0002-6002-8166)
Año1999
Páginas701-719
Fecha de publicación1999-10-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaThe New Cambridge medieval history. (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/chol9780521362894.034
OpenAlexW2503677706
ISBN9780521362894
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas54

The founder of the Mongol empire was a chieftain named Temujin, who in the late twelfth century had become leader of one of a number of nomadic tribes which paid tribute to the Chin dynasty in northern China. Rulers who submitted to the Mongols were obliged to make their troops available to the conquerors, and by the time the Mongols reached Europe their armies were made up of numerous elements, both steppe nomad cavalry and horse or foot auxiliaries from sedentary regions. Chinggis Khan never returned to the west, but the Mongol advance in this direction was resumed on the orders of Ogodei. The Mongol campaigns of 1259-60 in eastern Europe and in Syria were therefore the last military efforts of the united empire. When the first news of the assault on the Khwarazmshah had reached the army of the Fifth Crusade at Damietta in 1220, it had been assumed that the victors were Christians.

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