What Led to the Decline of the Mongol Empire
Even though his children especially Ogodei who was his third son and the preferred one tried to consolidate and expand the Mongol Empire trouble was soon going to engulf the Mongolian space. As a result of the war the empire was split into four autonomous empires Ilkhante Yuan Dynasty Chagatai Khanate and the Golden Horde. Decline And Fall The Mongol Empire Parts of the Mongol Empire continued for a very long time. . Other parts collapsed much earlier and those were the more sedentary areas where more accommodation to local mores had been necessary and where less of the nomadic lifestyle had survived. This led to the split of the. History tells us that civilisations and empires are ephemeral. And as it happens those were the parts which retained more of the traditional steppe lifestyle. Douglas Murrays latest book The War on the West details the decline of our civilisation which found its origin. Turkic tribes seized the w...