Question

Discuss the social background of mongols that united the people into single unified unit?

Answer 1

Mongol Empire

ᠶᠡᠬᠡ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠶᠯᠤᠰ

Ikh Mongol Uls

1206–1368

Expansion of the Mongol Empire 1206–1294

superimposed on a modern political map of Eurasia

Status

Nomadic empire

Capital

1206–1235: Avarga

1235–1260: Karakorum[a]

1260–1368: Khanbaliq (Dadu)[b]

Common languages

Mongolian•Turkic•Chinese•Persian and other languages

Religion

Initially

Tengrism•Shamanism

Later

Islam•Buddhism•Nestorianism

Government

Elective monarchy

Later also hereditary

Great Khan

• 1206–1227

Genghis Khan

• 1229–1241

Ögedei Khan

• 1246–1248

Güyük Khan

• 1251–1259

Möngke Khan

• 1260–1294

Kublai Khan (nominal)

• 1333–1368

Toghan Temür, Khan (nominal)

Legislature

Kurultai

History

• Genghis Khan proclaims

the Mongol Empire

1206

• Death of Genghis Khan

1227

• Pax Mongolica

1250–1350

• Empire fragments

1260–1294

• Fall of Yuan dynasty

1368

• Collapse of the

Chagatai Khanate

1687

Area

1206 (unification of Mongolia)[1]

4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi)

1227 (Genghis Khan's death)[1]

13,500,000 km2 (5,200,000 sq mi)

1294 (Kublai's death)[1]

23,500,000 km2 (9,100,000 sq mi)

1309 (last formal reunification)[1]

24,000,000 km2 (9,300,000 sq mi)

Currency

Various[c]