The Mongol Empire: The Most Terrifying Land Empire in History

It is the 1200s, you live in a city… markets, mosques, libraries, thousands of people going about their day. Then one morning, hundreds of thousands riders appear. Their message is simple: surrender now, or nothing here survives.

That was the choice facing dozens of cities across Asia and the Middle East during this period. The people delivering that choice were nomads. People who, just a generation earlier, lived in felt tents and herded sheep across one of the harshest stretches of land on earth.
I am talking about the Mongols. This is their story. The story of the Mongol Empire.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:39 The Steppe and The Tribes
03:27 Temujin's Early Life
06:57 Uniting the Steppe
09:56 How the Mongol Army Actually Worked
14:46 China & the Jin Dynasty
17:16 The Islamic World & the Khwarazmian Catastrophe
21:26 Death of Genghis Khan
24:08 The Sons of Genghis Khan
27:38 Mongke Khan
33:07 Four Khanates and the End of Unity
36:15 Pax Mongolica: The World the Mongols Made
38:50 What Mongols Leave Behind
40:41 Yuan Dynasty Next