The Mongol Conquest of Siberia and First Battle with the Khwarezmians, 1216-1219

[@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

Hello all! Took a while to get this one together, I know: much of my available time over the last while was spent working on an exciting collaboration with a larger KZbin channel, discussing the Mongol Empire. More information to follow soon, but we're hoping to have it all ready by October, and I think you'll really like it. A note that much of what is discussed in this video is often confused with earlier and later campaigns, both in medieval writings and in modern histories. The Secret History of the Mongols, for example, adds the Tumed troubles to the period when the forest tribes were first subjugated between 1205 and 1210.. Christopher Atwood's excellent article "Jochi and the Early Campaigns," does a fantastic job accessing the sources (both Chinese and Persian) and situating these campaigns into their proper places, while illuminating some mistakes oft made. A small example, Chem is often confused with the Chu River, which is in southern Kazakhstan, an error Peter Jackson repeats in his otherwise phenomenal work "The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion." I find Atwood's logic and reasoning both sound and has convinced me that this is the proper order. In another note, if you're like me an enjoy serious and intelligent discussion on all manner of historical topics, check out the Facebook group "Historical Realm," which has graciously allowed me to post my videos there. A good deviation from the standard Facebook discussion which devolves rapidly into racial slurs and ad hominem!

[@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

Link to Historical Realm: facebook.com/groups/558971107537698/?ref=br_rs

[@ashtonalex3813]

I know Im kinda off topic but do anyone know of a good website to stream newly released tv shows online?

[@ElBandito]

Great episode. Thanks for shedding light on the lesser known Mongol Siberian expeditions.

[@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

Thank you! I had not known much of this until I researched it: it was recomended on a previous video, and I'm glad I took it up. It will serve as a great transition to taking about the fall of the Qara-Khitai and the conquest of Khwarezmia.

[@charlesdeleo4608]

And here we go! The first clash between the Mongols and the Cumans! A war between two nomadic peoples that would lead to the Mongol Invasions of Kievan Rus and Eastern Europe. Out of all the Rus principalities, only Novgorod was spared, thanks to the resourcefulness of the knyaz of Novgorod, and the bane of the Baltic Crusaders: Alexander Nevsky.

[@SshadykK]

Channel is criminally underrated!!

[@Alejandro-te2nt]

This was one of the best videos yet! loved the great detail and awesome drawings! well worth the wait. well done man

[@daviddoherty7171]

Yes just found this out, so much more to learn on this expedition. Looking forward to watching these episodes

[@StephAnie-fd9vl]

Great video! Appreciate the hard work and effort to create this content. Would you consider doing a video on the Xiongnu in the future? There isn't much information about them sadly.

[@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

Google User thank you! Definitely im the future (they've already popped up in my research a few times), although I'm not sure exactly in what capacity. They're quite a bit earlier than what I know well, so I'm hesitant to do extensive work on them. An introductory video perhaps, and a follow up if there is interest.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Wow :0 great video

[@bradtanner7385]

Another amazing video Jackmeister!

[@ihavenomouthandimusttype9729]

What was Chinggis thinking? Giving a vassal 30 of a vassal tribe’s women? Was he trying to make them rebel?

[@victorvonsteuben1728]

Would you give 30 of YOUR tribe's women? I'm more annoyed he got rewarded for predicting his success.

[@bataabagi5969]

hello , please make a video about Mongolian encounter with Western armies

[@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

I will! I am putting up the next video starting the Mongol-Khwarezm war in the next few days, which leads into Jebe and Subutai fighting Russians at Kalka River in 1223, which will get its own video. Later I will discuss the invasion into Europe in great details, and I have ideas for videos on that I am very excited to get to

[@winlaxmunkhbat2216]

You need more subscribers. I subscribed.

[@ehvaandal]

I loled when I saw the second guy frowning in handcuffs at 3:00

[@YY-ug9mv]

Great art.

[@jugernatch3788]

Have you ever read Genghist Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weathorford?

[@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

Jugernatch Yes, it was one of the first serious works on the Mongol Empire I ever read. Weatherford is a good writer with a clear appreciation for Mongolia. However, there are a number of errors and poorly researched arguments in the work, and he has a tendency to overstate certain points. I still think though that it is a useful work for educating on the topic. I'm planning on a video outlining my thoughts on it in more detail in the future.

[@jugernatch3788]

Id be excited to see it.

[@HotZetiGer]

Wondering Shah is very odd :)

[@Singgen]

One thing. It's not Tumed but Khori-Tumed.

[@Willxdiana]

forest people are all tiele. Which are xiongnu wow.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

:(((

[@oddish2253]

They imprisoned a mongol envoy.

[@eliasfrahat7074]

Good but the mongols conquered the southern parts of Siberia

[@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

It's a bit of an unfortunate case of 'for lack of a better word.' The northern border of the Mongol Empire was poorly defined, and since there isn't reallyan alternative way to describe it, I take the precedent set by modern authors and just describe it as 'a conquest of Siberia.' Interesting, the name Siberia comes from a successor Khanate of the Golden Horde: the Khanate of Sibir, conquered by the Russian in the late 16th century.

[@bosbanon3452]

Are you still activr🤔