How Did The Mongol Empire Conquest Europe

How Did The Mongol Empire Conquest Europe
Chapter:
0:00 Introduction
0:54 Mongol Expansion to Europe under Ogedei Khan
1:42 Invasion of The Rus' lands
3:47 Invasion of Eastern and Central Europe
4:13 Invasion of Poland
5:34 Invasion of Czech lands
6:55 Invasion of Hungary
8:32 End of the Mongol Advance
Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan in 1206, was said to be the largest contiguous land empire to ever exist in world history. At its peak, it stretched from Korea to Ukraine and from Siberia to Southern China, covering 23 million square km of territory.
Ögedei, the third son of Genghis Khan, took over from his father and ruled the Mongol Empire from 1229 - 1241. Ögedei launched an attack on the Jin dynasty of North China, and after the collapse of the Jin state in 1234, Ögedei sent Mongol armies to the west, starting his invasions of Europe.
In 1235, Batu Khan, known as a nephew of Ögedei Khan, was ordered to conquer Russia which was then called Rus’. The invasion really began when the main force, crossing the Volga River, arrived at Ryazan in Russia in December 1237. Ryazan refused to surrender, but soon later was besieged between 16 and 21 December. The Mongols then stormed through other Russian cities, including Vladimir Suzdal (today known as Suzdal town in Vladimir province) in the north, and Pereyaslav and Chernihiv (today in Ukraine) in the south. Other major cities-such as Moscow and Torzhok were captured one by one in 1238. After occupying the steppe, the Mongols returned to Russia in 1239 defeating the Polovtsian people and took control of the southern Rus’ capital of Kiev in December 1240.
After sacking Kiev, the Mongol Empire continued to invade Eastern and Central Europe. One wing moved northwest and attacked Poland, marching through Bohemia and Moravia and then attacking Hungary, while another headed south and attacked Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia (earlier the Danubian Principalities of Romany).
The Mongol army assigned to Poland was under the command of Baidar - son of Chagatai Khan, Kadan - son of Ögedei Khan and Orda Khan - a Mongol Khan and military strategist. The city of Krakow was easily captured. Breslau (Wroclaw) was the next target. Employing a tried-and-tested tactic, the Mongols gained victory in the battle of Legnica which was also the most westerly point reached.
After the victory at Legnica, the Mongols continued ravaging their way through Poland’s neighboring kingdoms, particularly the Silesian - Moravian region. During the Mongol invasion, Bohemia under Wenceslaus' commander remained one of a few European kingdoms that was never conquered by the Mongols. After several attempts to capture Bohemia failed, Baidar and Kadan continued raiding Moravia before finally going southward to reunite with Batu and Subutai in Hungary.
The Mongol attack of Hungary was conducted with five distinct armies. On 15 March, the Mongol vanguard reached the city of Pest in Hungary and began to pillage the neighboring area. Around this time, several Hungarian forces were defeated by the Mongols. On April 10, 1241, the Hungarian armies, under the command of King Bela IV, arrived and encamped at the Sajó River. After the heavier-than-expected losses inflicted by the Hungarian crossbowmen, the Mongols modified their plan and crashed King Bela’s army at the Battle of Mohi, forcing King Béla IV to flee into Croatia. On Christmas Day, despite virtually destroying the entire city, the Mongols failed to siege Esztergom - the capital and economic center of the Kingdom of Hungary. A new capital was then moved to Budapest. Despite gaining control of Hungary, the Mongols could not occupy several fortified cities such as Fehérvár, Veszprém, Tihany,
Besides Poland and Hungary, Croatia, Austria and Bulgaria were also affected by the Mongol invasion. However, the advance of the Mongols in Europe and the Near East (now can be known as the Middle East) was halted by the death of the Great Khan Ögedei on December 11, 1241.
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[@desrofah4057]

im batu khan

[@KoyoRadster40]

Im Batu Khan -𝘽𝙖𝙩𝙪 𝙆𝙝𝙖𝙣

[@craniorach5764]

I'm Batu Nhat

[@matthewdeguire472]

Nobody ever seems to mention Batu Khan's lifelong rival, Ambah Singh.

[@amadocarillo423]

Batu Khan conquering all the territories : "I want it, I want it, I want it all gimme all" Batu Khan after a city peacefully submit to him: "Yes thank you so much~,"

[@miguelangelcifuentescruz689]

I'M BATA BLOO

[@ZahidKhan-vy8yu]

Mongols left because Batu Khan knew the bigger threat was from Guyuk Khan becoming the great Khan. As soon as Ogedia died the Mongol empire was only united in a name. The civil war amongst the grandsons were epic

[@jij8504]

dont forget amba singh

[@Mirroredsmoke]

Dont forget Ambatu Nhat

[@chelschelnov458]

What about Oma Ygot?

[@LEG4CYGD_GNT]

What about jo emama?

[@user-vr1bk2nk1x]

Because Chinese kills him at diaoyu

[@kucingsedihjojofan1428]

People talk about Polish in Poland, Napoleon siege of Moscow and even battle of Moscow in ww2, but people never talk about Moscow during the Mongolian time

[@lotuscabage4755]

Likely Mongol is too invicible lol

[@FriendlyCroock]

The thing is they don't teach this history in Rey Cyst america the capital of racism because they don't want to.

[@FriendlyCroock]

american schools and universities are fascinating

[@FriendlyCroock]

they're mostly supporters of

[@FriendlyCroock]

the democrat party

[@rell108]

This really makes you think how the entire world's history would have changed had they went on through Western Europe and been successful...

[@anomalianomali5080]

nothing will change, the mongols don't aim to change anything. Just look at other former Mongolian territories apart from a small part of Central Asia no significant Mongolian influence remains. the mongols assimilated and became part of the native population, the only trace of the mongols can only be seen from the DNA and even then only 1% so

[@Emilechen]

even the Mongols conquered Europe, their homeland will be invaded by the Ming Chineses later, "Battle of Buir Lake - Wikipedia" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buir_Lake

[@johnirby8847]

The Mongols would've struggled with the environment and difference in fighting styles. Europe was full of dense forests that weren't ideal for the type of warfare the Mongols excelled at. Food must be stored for winter. It is difficult to feed cavalry. Stone castles would've been the biggest obstacle, however. There were over 1600 stone castles in Germany alone...farther west, there were an estimated 8000 stone castles. It's not that the Mongols weren't good at seiging castles... look at Baghdad. The sheer number of castles would be the problem. The Mongols, during their entire conquest, laid seige to mere dozens of stone fortresses, and it caused delays. Imagine having to stop to seige, not dozens, but thousands of castles. And some of those castles, like Paris, could withstand seiges lasting years. Something the Mongols had yet to encounter. Mongols had heavy lancer units. But these were also different to heavy cavalry like knights. Arrows were not very effective, and if the Mongols actually got caught with a charge, unlikely, but if they did, it would be devastating for lighter armoured cavalry meant to be more mobile. Even Mongol reports of knights, the Mongols note how much better armoured and better at fighting compared to levy troops. These were the same knights that just returned from the crusades. Veterans of numerous wars and battle hardened. The knights also learned a valuable lesson during the crusades. Do not follow light cavalry horse archers units into a massacre. The knights messed up with that numerous times before realizing it was a trap, and it was better to force them to attack.

[@CruWiT]

@@johnirby8847 There were 3-4 times as many castles in China as the total number of castles in Europe, and this did not stop the Mongols. If you resist the Mongols, everyone in the city will be slaughtered. Maybe 5% of the population is allowed to survive and flee to other forts as refugees, whereby the refugees who escaped the massacre tell scary stories about the Mongols and the people of other cities surrender without a fight to avoid being massacred. In addition, the first to use biological weapons in history are the Mongols, with a tactic they call "wooden egg", they put people who died of the plague into this egg-shaped wooden board and glue them with resin, the corpse inside the egg rots and the whole people are killed by the plague by being thrown into the cities by catapult.

[@johnirby8847]

@@CruWiT lookup castles from China and Europe from the time period and tell me if you notice something different.

[@Hayden.999]

batu khan was killed by amba singh

[@sansaramgalan7213]

No he got heart attack stop glitching history

[@Vang2009]

@@sansaramgalan7213this a joke bud

[@neogivxapwntcpaa]

I cant belive ambutacam got a hert atak

[@erikprank4611]

Poland and the Baltic countries were not part of Rus' in 13th century.

[@MasiukA]

Not the entire states, but little bit of the modern territories were under Rus control at its greatest extent.

[@ThePawcios]

@@MasiukA Its also not correct, check a real map,not his drawings

[@KOROZUMILuz-zf9be]

​@@MasiukAIs Rus Russia?🤔

[@billdecompsa4705]

@@KOROZUMILuz-zf9be Historically no.

[@FranzJoseph1914]

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[@Iceyfireandcoldmask]

im batu khannn 😩😩

[@Lifegotmid]

1:46

[@feysteii]

omaygot am batu khan

[@JustinianTheGreat482]

Take it take it take it

[@justwalkaway9915]

I came here for the batu khan meme i stayed for the history.

[@curloscurlos3362]

Ambassing

[@hxcvocalist]

At 8:41 the most western expansion kinda look like a mongol horse rider. Croatia being the horse legs, Austria the horse head, Hungary its chest, Poland the rider's head/torso.

[@phoebe3122]

Mother nature herself was the one protected the Bohemia

[@EpicMathTime]

A truly underrated channel.

[@andyc3012]

but he is spreading BS.. Since when di the Mongols conquer all of China?

[@slav5215]

Alot of the names and mapping are inaccurate

[@Weeperofdeath8567]

It's scary how close the Mongolian empire came to conquering Eurasia

[@benjamindo8142]

Came close? They conquered the entire silk road, you mean how close they came to conquering Europe

[@LEG4CYGD_GNT]

Luckily russia saved us from Buddhist russia😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 (Not a single thing told here is true)

[@billdecompsa4705]

@@benjamindo8142 They never even came remotely close to conquering Europe. They didn't even conquer Poland and Hungary, no less that they never experienced true European warfare.

[@benjamindo8142]

@billdecompsa4705 Battle of Mohi. You might want to even delete your comment after when u realized you're not even doing your due diligence

[@benjamindo8142]

@billdecompsa4705 Europe at the time was poor compared to east Asia, I can go on but your comment alone indicates the little to knowledge you have. Do your due diligence before you speak

[@ngocthienvu7438]

Very helpful video, it supports my upcoming history assignment!

[@historyonmaps]

Glad it helped!

[@Crimsrn]

you get history assessments on the mongols? you lucky bastard

[@Kymas_CS]

Nobody mentions lithuania when they also did a good amount

[@janplasil4066]

king wenceslas ordered moravian nobility to stay in castles and let the horde go trough.. after that czech army opened partisan war.. using on mongols their own tactics.. there were many clashes in moravia.. where czechs and moravians held the ground until ogedei died..this resistance led to boost our reputation in europe as protecters of holy roman empire..

[@CruWiT]

If Ogeday khan had not died, they would probably have destroyed all of you. They had to return to the capital, as going to the Kurultai was more important even in the war itself.

[@overlordbrandon]

​@@CruWiT There are many things, problem to be exact to be solved first back in the Mongols homeland and their invaded territories, they are simply over-stretched, Europe is their least concern

[@overlordbrandon]

​@@CruWiT Plus the Mongols already retreated before knowing Ogedei's death due to how unrewarding their Europe campaign was

[@CruWiT]

@@overlordbrandon The Mongols have an incredibly fast postal service. therefore, it takes a maximum of 15 days for them to receive the news of the Khagan's death. In the military reports of Subutay Noyan, it is written that they had to return for the kurultai while the siege continued in Vienna today, and even Subutay insisted that the siege should continue at first, but the Chengiz laws were put into effect and all the high-ranking commanders and the important person of the state and subjected boy cheif's went to the capital to elect the new khan in the Kurultai Tent. For the steppe peoples, the Kurultai is a very important system of democracy and they behave sensitively.

[@maoyang9226]

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[@historyonmaps]

Thank you, we will

[@purevjavterbish33]

@@historyonmaps I am mongol,writing from Mongolia.This empire was most strong military power in human history,much powerful than Romans,Nazi Germany,Soviet Union and USA.Hole Europe was saved by miracle.

[@terranovamapping1119]

I'm batu khan

[@billdecompsa4705]

@@purevjavterbish33 Factually you are incorrect. Nazi Germany, USSR, and the USA if they individually fought the Mongols would have easily crushed them. Difference in Technology is too much. The Mongols would have been massacured.

[@miamor5929]

Part 2?

[@deteriorated7965]

Nice video but the borders are not too well made

[@Azhureus]

Oh my beloved Bohemia :)

[@blondedivy]

1:40 of the WHAT??

[@blondedivy]

fuck you for calling the rus r*ssia

[@mariosutalo6325]

So you are saying that someone attacked Russia in winter and actually succeded?

[@janplasil4066]

yes because wetlands were frozen .. you see winter was best to attack marshlands.. czech crusade against baltic pagans was also led in winter.. by king Přemysl ottokar 2.

[@CruWiT]

Not only was success, they destroyed the Russian army of 125,000 with her army of 25.000 khalka battle in winter, thanks to Subutai Noyan, one of the greatest commanders that history has ever seen.

[@JamesMassie-vm2cu]

Should attack from the east to be succesfull

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[@historyonmaps]

Thank you so much 😀

[@nicolausg7058]

I would like to debunk the part with invasion on Poland, full of garbage thrown I hope so, by lack of the acces to the polish sources. 1stly, the city of Kraków, might been taken, but the Wawel Castle - the heart of the city, and de facto a king's castle was not captured. 2ndly the city of Wrocław was not abandoned beacuse of fear. It was a scorch earth tactic, to deny the mongols the supplices. 3dly the number of typical German forces under Legnica was low, beacuse the Germans you were talking about were soldiers of prince Henryk, not his allies due to germanic migration on the east. The same thing is about the Teuthonic Knights. There was not to many of them, at maximum it could be arraund 20 knights - not to much. 4thly the Mongols used a gas attack under the Legnica. It was a terrible weapon. The knights were overwhelmed by the smell of the gas, and could not charge properly. 5thly about the Bohemia - the "invasion" was not an invasion. If it was an invasion ,the mongols would not used a bleeded army from Legnica. They were just passing by. The moravia, was just on thier way, not Bohemia. Trust me on it - Bohemian army was similar to Polish army from Legnica. If the Mongolians would like to take the Bohemia they would do it. So it was a miracle that they had survived. And finaly 6thly Mongolians did not conquered Poland. Sure the invasion was a brutal event, but it was not about the conquest. Many cities were still well defended, and held the invasion forces, like the capital city of Upper Silesia Racibórz that was well fortified and could withstand the siedge. Moreover, there was still the rivals of prince Henryk - Prince Konrad of Mazovia, and Prince Przemysł in Greater Poland. Those 2 could unite and liberate the occupied parts of Poland. Both had similar goals - Konrad wanted to take the Małopolska with Kraków, that was his hieretage after the death of his brother Leszek the White - the last polish senior prince, and Przemysł wanted to retake the lands of Wielkopolska, taken by Pobożny's father - Henryk Brodaty, from Władysław Odonic - the father of Przemysł. In addition to that the people of Małopolska would seen Konrad like a Liberator, and could declare him thier new prince. Then He could unite Poland and end Rozbicie Dzielnicowe.

[@user-id4xb9dq4t]

What if Ugudei Khan is not dead in 1241?

[@TheEclipse5]

I have an urge to play Warhammer now.... I wonder why?

[@dannyboy218]

bro wtf the czech republic did not exist until 1993, why the hell you show it here in the 1200's 6:03. Those lands where Bohemia which was under german rule of the HRE

[@None-wi2co]

Mongols(Tatars) were the only force that destroyed Moscow to the ground 3 times. Moscow's 16ft thick walls were erected to protect the city from the Tatars...

[@Cyricist001]

God dammit! Who perpetuated this myth that the Teutonic knights fought at Legnica! Also the Mongol's retreated from Europe before they even knew that the Khan died. There were multiple factors why they withdraw: 1. Attrition: Mongols sustained losses and neither Hungary nor Poland gave submitted, opting to resist. 2. Little plunder: the cash was in castles that the Mongols couldn't breach. 3. Cuman revolt in the Mongol territory. 4. Other Christian powers were preparing to help, Croatia also was largely untouched do to forts. 5. The Mongols didn't wish for a flooded Danube to cut off their retreat.

[@nhucanhvacbay5329]

According to historians, known as the most violent barbarians in human history, the Mongols had been fully responsible for displacing the world populations and changing the face of human history through their widespread bloody massacres. Every inch on earth the Mongols passed, was greased with human fat and soaked with human blood. Scholars regard the Mongol conquest as one of the deadliest invasions in human history. In fact, it took Iran almost a century to recover its original peak population prior to the Mongols' invasion. Even the deadliest winters in Russia could not deter the Mongols from invading Moscow and Kiev. After their successful conquest of the Great Russia, the Mongols again repeated the great success with their powerful speed and maneuverability in addition to their lethal horsebows in the Battle of Legnica in 1241 known as the Battle of Liegnitz in Poland. The mighty Mongol army totally crushed the combined defending forces of European fighters, twice its size. The decisive victories in Poland and Hungary have become some of the most celebrated episodes in the Mongols world conquest, which showed the effectiveness of the Mongol war machine. Suffering the same fate as the European countries, West Asian countries including Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey one by one submitted to the powerful Mongol army. Sadly, China was not an exception. The Chinese Empire said to the mighty Mongol Empire, "Our Empire is as vast as the sea, yours is but a handful of sand." The Chinese had paid a deadly price for their arrogance they would never forget. The mighty Mongol army creatively went around the Great Wall of China, easily got inside and savagely massacred all the Chinese people, leaving a mountain of human skulls/bones outside the Great Wall that could be visible from miles away for years. According to historians, “Body [of the Chinese prisoners] stacked ‘like rotten logs’ littered the ground for more than 30 miles.” The mighty Mongol army led by the bloodthirsty commander Subedei continued to brutally burn, pillage, rape, and murder all the populations of 90 Chinese cities for over 6 months. As a result, unable to protect the Chinese people from the Mongols' attack, China's Great Wall has sadly become a historic symbol of China's eternal shame and failure. Finally, the mighty Mongol army conquered all of China in 1279 after Western Xia Dynasty, Dali Kingdom, Jin Dynasty and Song Dynasty all one by one shamefully surrendered to the Mongols. In less than 80 years, the unbeatable Mongol Empire successfully conquered half of the known world from West to East, including all of China. Continuing the ambitious dream of conquering the entire world, Kublai Khan immediately started the southward expansion where a small country known as Dai Viet (currently Vietnam) at the time was his first target. However, totally failing to achieve the great successes as seen earlier in the century, the unbeatable Mongol army met its match. In spite of having been fully equipped with thousands of well-armed warships, the mighty Mongol army of over 500,000 well-trained troops, led by the most brilliant and successful military commanders of all time with the greatest military strategy of Sun Tzu, was totally bitterly defeated, not once but three times (1258, 1285, and 1288) by the Vietnamese; and the decisive victory of the Vietnamese army led by Vietnamese Prince Tran Quoc Tuan against the invading mighty Mongol army in the bloody battle at the Bach Dang River in 1288 eventually brought an end to the Mongols invasion of Dai Viet as well as their ambitious dream of conquering the entire world. If having learned that the resilient Vietnamese people had successfully kicked out all of the 7 powerful Chinese dynasties (Qin, Dong Wu, Han, Song, Ming, Yuan, Qing) with their utterly failed attempts to assimilate the Vietnamese after the 1,000-year Chinese domination, the Mongol Empire would have never even thought of invading Vietnam

[@burningknuckle26]

The greatest of all time

[@fredericchopin4821]

Steven ambatakum

[@akhancj9]

How did the Mongol Empire Colonize Europe

[@outlander47]

4:00 name butchering master

[@None-wi2co]

Mongol/Tatars destroyed Moscow 3 times. Last one was in May, 1571.

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

in Bulgaria mongols was defeated few times,from swineman,or pigfarmer Ivailo,hihi fun fact

[@coldmask]

batublow

[@spaceslav8954]

The maps are not at all good. Mixing modern countries (There was no Czech Republic in the 13th century) with medieval ones is a confusing mess.

[@Zack974k]

Mispell Its Chingis Khan (khan = king)

[@user-ld1zy1ot9s]

conquered modern-day Hungary as well

[@jhackyalmerco-vo2oe]

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[@tomxfootyedits]

mongol empire casually colonising Europe 😂

[@someone-ip4rf]

Casually? Meaby during the first invasion but during the second hungary won because they were eable to learn and reform by focusing more on heavy knights , crossbowmen and stone walls

[@zenithsomining820]

​@@someone-ip4rfEurope got lucky that they were the last ones to face mongol army.

[@zoltan6451]

you put bulgaria in transylvania and romania lmao ahahahha

[@zoltan6451]

bruh what did you do to the european map man wtf is this

[@user-ke9dk4hs3u]

Unknown fact mongols returned in mid 1250s to loot Poland and recieve tribute from Hungary under Berke Khan who was Batu brother. Mongol dominance in Europe only really declined after Uzbek Khan. Although by then the Mongol empire didn’t really exist

[@ThePawcios]

And then they come back for third time the come back but were repeld by united Polsih and Hungarian forces. This defeat was soo profund that Mongols never tride to ride central europe again :)

[@user-ke9dk4hs3u]

@@ThePawcios the third attack was more a bully trying his chance. Third attack was not on the same level as the first 2 Attacks. Having said Uzbek Khan did dominate all the way up-to Poland

[@billdecompsa4705]

What are you on brother? The Mongols were beat during the second invasion. Hungary never gave tribute and the Mongols were destroyed at the Battle of Stary Sącz.

[@user-ke9dk4hs3u]

@@billdecompsa4705 king Bella paid them off during the second invasion , Berke khan was happy with the tribute and had bigger problems to face from his cousins in the east

[@billdecompsa4705]

@@user-ke9dk4hs3u while I will not claim to be an expert on the subject, I have done decently extensive research and yet I have not once found any mention of King Béla IV of Hungary paying the Mongols any sort of tribute. You claim is factually incorrect and is supported by no historical evidence, unless you would care to enlighten me by naming some.

[@deegii0904]

Correction: It was first started by some european rabbit made some cool rhyme against the Khan

[@sofiamariapetrou2794]

Bulgaria was never in the mongolian Empire ...they defeated the mongols

[@destic7767]

Croats have successfully defeated Mongols at the Battle of Grobnik 1242. 🇭🇷

[@Nathan00000]

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[@stanbatakarata6081]

Bulgaria and Volga Bulgaria defend GreatvMongols in battle 💪

[@tomjones4105]

Basically they left because the knights were trolling and kept taking the castles back. They would continue fighting even though armies on their side were non-existent and everything around the castles was destroyed. There were times with 90 knights fighting 10,000 soldiers and they wouldn't surrender.

[@CruWiT]

"There were times with 90 knights fighting 10,000 soldiers and they wouldn't surrender." this made me laugh 🤣

[@CruWiT]

They left because the khan died, a Kurutai had to be convened, and all commanders must to be in the Kurultai Tent in the capital. No matter how successful they are in europe invasion, Kurultai is more important than the war.

[@Cyricist001]

@@CruWiT Then why did they wait two years after retreating to go east to kurutai? Maybe because they had no idea that the khan died, in fact they couldn't have learned of it before they retreated. Modern historians have discardded that the khan's death was the reson for the retreat.

[@CruWiT]

@@Cyricist001 Most of the soldiers, and all of the high-ranking commanders and nobles, have returned, and the rest may have thought it unnecessary to be there. Europe was poor at that time and there was nothing to go back to and fight again, after they already had a certain part of Eastern Europe attached to them, they decided to go on an expedition to the Middle East and India in the South. When Kublai Khan took the country out of the war economy and took steps towards invesment and trade economy, the expeditions were stop a lot. Later, when Kublai Khan died, internal turmoil started and the empire was divided.

[@Cyricist001]

@@CruWiT "Europe was poor at the time" Yea, poor. The silk and spices that were sold from China in Europe must have been bought by fish then. I'm always amazed that people claim that Europe was poor and then admit that Europeans bought luxury goods from the far east via the Silk-road. I wonder how they payed them, hmmm... Except, they did come back with a bigger army and got defeated. They got their arses kicked in the Middle-east by the Mamluks and by the Delhi sultanant in India. Their expeditions were a complete failiure.

[@zoltan6451]

you dont even know where transylvania is mate it was in hungary what romania reporting this channel

[@Vatronn]

Reee

[@babibau2781]

Back when they thought full armor can save them.

[@Cyricist001]

Full armor could save you, the problem is that 80% of the army were peasant levies. Do to the feudal anarchy many nobles didn't support the king so Bela IV. went to battle with whatever forces he could conscript on short notice. Knights proved very successful in fighting the Mongols so their number was increased after the first invasion and they easily repelled the second Mongol invasion.

[@Cyricist001]

@Jk As a historian I guarantee you, no facts given are distorted. The best proof of that is - the Mongols were unable to force Hungary to either pay tribute, to conquer even a millimeter of land or force the king to even surrender.

[@Cyricist001]

@Jk The Teutonic knights didn't even fight the Mongols, that's a complete myth. The explain to me one thing, there were two Mongol invasions, the first was devastating for Hungary and Poland. The second larger invasion was repulsed with ease. What do you think changed on the Hungarian side between these two invasions? It was Bela's focus on forts and KNIGHTS. And you're wrong that no army could defeat them. Besides the well known Vietnam campaigns, the Mongols launched two invasions of Chechenia, and both invasions were defeated by the Chechens. The Mamluks also defeated the Mongols at their own game.

[@MonkeyDLuffy-gd6se]

@Jk The mongols couldnt conquer europe, it was too wet and cold most likely hence why they went south towards serbia. I think its cool to be proud of something but to say they would have conquered europe is nothing more than assuming. They didn't leave because their khan died, they left because a lot of their horses were dying of starvation and a lot of their men aswell.

[@MonkeyDLuffy-gd6se]

@Jk ontop of this, they did win over hungary but their losses were heavy (assumingly we are talking about the first mongol invasion because thats the main one where they won.) to think a weakened mongol forces, in bad condition due to weather would be able to take austria/germany/italy and then later assumingly france is just ignorant

[@user-sj8hi2cj1e]

Mongol never annexed korea, they just had them as their tribute state so even before watching this vid, i already know it's gonna be full of shit

[@zoltan6451]

dislike

[@cubinanticommunist]

Why?

[@MaskedGamer10001]

@@cubinanticommunist he thinks Transylvania is in Hungary

[@johnirby8847]

The Mongols did not conquer Europe...lol. They never made it past Hungary.

[@crusaderforchrist8430]

No, the furthest they got was Czech and Southern Poland.

[@johnirby8847]

@@crusaderforchrist8430 really...I didn't know those countries existed at that time

[@crusaderforchrist8430]

@@johnirby8847 Poland and Bohemia, as they called them.

[@grandcanyon-fu9zt]

Because of civil wars between them and who should lead

[@eonthinker100yrago8]

they reached till eastern germany before stopping due to civil wars,did you even watch the video?

[@vijayshankar7110]

So sad

[@coldmask]

im batu khan