In this exciting installment, we look at some little known campaigns of the Mongols, often confused with others: the conquest of Siberia and First Battle with the Khwarezmians under Shah Muhammad II. A tribal revolt on the northern border of the empire threatens Mongol power, while an old enemy of Chinggis Khan makes new allies to the west! And the Khwarezm-Shah, Muhammad II, intercepts a Mongol force, putting his empire on a collision course with the thirteenth century's most fearsome military power. Exciting stuff!

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SOURCES USED:

Atwood, Christopher. “Jochi and the Early Campaigns.” in How Mongolia Matters: War, Law, and Society, edited by Morris Rossabi. Brill's Inner Asian Library, (2017) 35-56.

Atwood, Christopher P. Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire. New York: Facts on File, Inc, 2004.

In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200-1300). Edited by Igor de Rachewiltz, Hok-lam Chan, Hsiao Ch’i-ch’ing and Peter W. Geier. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1993.

McLynn, Frank. Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World. London: The Bodley Head, 2015.

Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy. Edited and translated by Thomas Nivison Haining. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1991.

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