The Rise and Fall of the Mongol Empire

[@JunkPhubeta]

Except, wait for it, The Mongols...

[@u12nnas]

Where is this quote from? It's like an itch that I can't seem to get rid off?

[@JunkPhubeta]

@@u12nnas "Hi, I'm John Green and welcome to Crash Course History."

[@dantevenne6865]

I heard the music come in and the video they played 😂

[@Cybele1986]

@@JunkPhubeta “We are the exception!”

[@BillionaireLS-IAMWEALTH]

these guys were scary smart damn...

[@abdelra7man87]

Never get tired of Mongol history, and yes to all the sequels

[@SparkAA]

@@abdelra7man87 insane glazing

[@randomguy1642]

So basically the Mongols greatest enemy was itself.

[@mcheng30]

Pretty much every empire that ever rose and fell were their own greatest enemies.

[@dreamleaguesoccerdls1954]

Roman empire too. They destroyed himself.

[@cynthiarobinette2119]

Mogol rulers are called?

[@Otterpawp]

Yep. Hordes just end up loving the culture they conquer and inhabit. Losing their horde like ways.

[@ujingono]

Exactly

[@gaeagaea8018]

Im pretty sure Ogedai Khan never conquered the Song Dynasty entirely. In fact, Möngke Khan believed to have died during the siege of Diaoyucheng, fighting a southern Song army. Kublai Khan was believed to be the first Khan to conquer southern China.

[@linshitaolst4936]

Chinese literati and officials, although not skilled in warfare, are skilled in brainwashing and surround Kublai Khan every day, explaining to him why the Jin and Song dynasties lost to the Mongols because the emperor was corrupt and incompetent, and did not respect Confucianism. Therefore, Your Majesty Khan, you must value us scholars

[@MridulBiswas]

This is accurate. Kublai's conquest of South China is well documented.

[@NyangisKhan]

He's got a lot of historical facts wrong lol. This video overall is a horribly constructed one.

[@flavius2884]

You are one of the few history youtubers that is informative and unbiased. A rare sort.

[@fliped2]

He is biased, you don't see it because you're biased like him or you don't know enough to see it. In this video he show it twice.

[@flavius2884]

@@fliped2 Care to give me an example? Also, this is a ~30 min video. He can't say everything about the mongol empire. Just because he left some details out, that does not mean he is biased. He preaty much told us the good and the bad.

[@James_new]

​@@fliped2explain

[@letthatsimmer]

4 months later and we are still waiting on the example.

[@Temuulen.J]

I am so glad that you pronounced Chinggis khaan the Mongol way. Also your video is relatively unbiased compared to others.

[@kenshum9949]

Thanks!

[@DocuAddict666]

Love your videos man. You seem like on of the most down to earth guys in current day. Never change.

[@okdude503]

Thanks for making these videos, I love them, good job. 👍

[@kevinfleming]

Babe wake up, a new history scope video just dropped 🔥

[@supernova7069]

18:27 hold on a minute, feel like ive heard that somewhere pretty recently🤔

[@ЭнхмөнхУ]

too far broooo tooo farrrr hhe

[@naturalhometreatments724]

lol 😂 👍

[@nicbahtin4774]

really ? i heard it pretty much everywhere in history from at least the roman empire

[@PhilRable]

What about doing an analysis of the rise and fall of Charlemagne?

[@zurielsss]

Russians are also mongol descendants 😅

[@Slifer29]

That was an awesome use of The Borg Reference.

[@cait6461]

Yes!

[@kirakaffee9976]

resistance is futile. you will be assimilated. it was invented by the Romans long before the Mongols or Borg spaceships though.

[@rycallgames4545]

GET THIS VIDEO 30K LIKES CHAT, I'm currently a middle school student doing research on Mongol History, and i just want to say thank you so much for creating this video, this was very in depth and very informative and helped me a ton on my research project so thank you

[@BruceWayne-gm4sc]

Thankyou, History Scope . Great Topic !

[@h2otote]

You deserve a million subs dude! Your videos are great, keep it up!

[@lawrenceamevor339]

Excellent output, as always 👌🏿

[@Temuulen.J]

One thing is incorrect in the video. The Dzungars are Oirat Mongols (Western Mongols). The spoke the same language with a western accent. So it was not Dzungars taking revenge on Chagatai khanate in the 1700’s chagatai khanate was assimilated to the degree that was unrecognizable as mongols. They did not practice mongol culture and did not speak the language as well as heavily converted to islam. Dzungars were simply expanding their natural flow of way. Since to their east is Qing (Manchus) who were also nomadic people that conquered China. The descendants of Dzungars live in Mongolia, xinjiang china, and Russia in Kalmykia. They still speak the Mongolian language.

[@sarala9794]

Please, please, please create some videos on the sequel showing "what happened when the Mongols were gone". I just finished this video and you did such a masterful job explaining the names, origins, and territories of these four Khanates!

[@AzaaAzaa-xz4vw]

What are you doing? What do you need? When we know ourselves, how can you do things in your own land?

[@nlgaming9760]

Great intro or refresher for one of the most influential groups, cultures, and systems in history.

[@Norr42]

This is the first time I've caught a new video at release...it's exciting lol. I found your stuff and have been going through your catalog. These should be announced with trumpets

[@scotandiamapping4549]

The Mongol Empire in ten words: Very very very very very very very very very big

[@nurlan6588]

30 million sq. km. Russia - the biggest country on territory is just 17 mil. sq. km.

[@scotandiamapping4549]

@@nurlan6588 yup, the Mongol Empire was one of the largest polities in history, second only to the British Empire

[@Miokopsgvr]

You are so good at explaining things I learned so much history I did not know before

[@Czar_B]

Lol the typhoon went from north to south, should have been the other way around. AND GREAT VIDEO! IT WAS GREAT

[@hermsterhd9862]

Your content is really amazing and much appreciated. Being able to watch so high quality educational videos is truly a privilege. Still I just want to give some minor criticism: The reason the mongols never exploited their victories in Poland and Hungary is not as clear as it seems. The most common theory is the one you presented here, with the Death of the Khan being the definitive answer yet the historical evidence leaves room for debate and other theories with different things speaking for each one. In the circle of historians the question of why the Mongols didn’t continue their offensive isn’t yet fully answered with a lot of possibilities, maybe a lot of them combined, but I just found it a bit worrying that you presented the theory that the Mongols left because of the death of the Khan as a fact, when in reality there are a lot more nuances to the question. History is often more complex than it seems and even though you oversimplify many things on purpose, for educational purposes, so that more people understand a topic and then can dive deeper themselves, only showing one perspective on a still hotly debated issue can be quite dangerous nonetheless.

[@moonlightboiii]

Amazing work! I hope the video gets enough likes to justify producing another in the series. I’m interested in the rise and fall of Russia (I’m assuming this goes until the death of the last Russian monarch).

[@zhcultivator]

also please make a video on the Empires of Early Modern era Africa.

[@gideonwocc4375]

No we don’t care about Africa it’s the worst place on the planet way too dark

[@aarondemiri486]

Please do one on the Timurids.

[@HistoryScope]

We probably will

[@Alberto-hr1cf]

these are the best videos ever. full respect.

[@dovescryspringseternal]

History scope videos rule

[@rc7625]

Damn right.

[@RodolfoGaming]

You bet

[@raiisleep]

like mongols?

[@Norr42]

A-fuggin-gree

[@commodusmeridius4718]

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@MCPhatman]

History Scope drops a new vid that means its time to work out again... Geweldig werk weer 😂

[@HistoryScope]

Je luisterd naar mijn videos terwijl je sport? :D

[@MCPhatman]

@@HistoryScope Ja, meestal op de loopband of tijdens het hiken ben je hele library al door dus wanneer je upload weet ik meteen dat ik weer aan de slag kan. Helaas (eigenlijk gelukkig maar 🤣) is het vaak ook visueel interessant dus moet ik ook kijken wat er gebeurd 🤣

[@Godzillaminusone70]

Awesome video new sub

[@Karbonn-14]

Its a great day when History Scope uploads ❤

[@AbhyudayaSinh]

Very informative ❤❤

[@72hrs_vermithor]

Thank you for the video Mr. History Scope sir on the Mongol Empire! :)) Now, go back and watch the China video again ya goon

[@patrickschnaas2797]

Very entertaining. Thank you

[@sleepingtom9337]

Commenting just to boost the algorithm.

[@Gamer-is6ew]

Amazing video! ❤️‍🔥

[@hansspiegl8684]

Great!!! Thank you for your work and time!

[@ffarkasm]

21:00 When you roll critical mistake and realize that the country you intended to conquer conquers you instead.

[@Andy-dh2sv]

Kublai’s letter turned gamer rage at the end there

[@fishnsteve]

The only thing I know about the Mongol Empire is:" You men, you'll visit each of the outlying tribes. You must convince as many as you can to join our glorious army, but beware of Karakhitai. They’re without honor."

[@lemons-zt6mi]

This man is the only man who’ll get me tripping over myself for some history content

[@Victini0510]

Wow I love this Asian focus lately!

[@HistoryScope]

Next video is about Russia, then a non-Asian video, and then one on Saudi Arabia. After that we have a bit of a break from Asia

[@Victini0510]

I do hope you have a plan for another China video. The last one about the Qin dynasty was awesome! ​@@HistoryScope

[@robbrown4621]

@@HistoryScope An episode about the various native American tribes might be interesting.

[@sultan9givewey]

​@@HistoryScopeMajapahit Empire please

[@colinhannah3515]

incredible content!

[@Jegrygerfede]

Do a video about iranian History

[@HistoryScope]

Maybe

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

The city of Kharakorum, which was the capital of the mongol empire, was a city full of scholars, translators and scientists from all across the world. Similar to baghdad.

[@brad7073]

Thanks for releasing this right after ghost of Tsushima got released on PC it’s really insightful and makes the games story even more meaningful

[@OldPoppyHistoryChannel]

please tell me, do you create characters in the free program? Or which one do you use?

[@HistoryScope]

Adobe animate. But I recommend you use something better and open source

[@OldPoppyHistoryChannel]

@@HistoryScope why?) not the most functional program in your opinion?)

[@mikegoossens359]

Amazing as always

[@bhami]

Next I'd like you to explain to us where the Ottoman Empire came from. Thanks!

[@HistoryScope]

We already have that video.

[@fatelfeaper]

Great video!

[@kravtsov93]

Nice video!

[@CalCalCal6996]

Yayyyy! Thanks for the great videos!

[@vinniepeterss]

impressive as always!

[@Chrisdelu]

ur videos r soooo good!!

[@cormacmcmahon5456]

Could you do a vid on the Irish famine pls ❤ love the vids awell man keep them up 🎉

[@babakush9772]

Wasnt he imprisoned or smth before he was crowned king? Kinda remember it from the movie "mongols" which is pretty good

[@PowerShellWizard]

As an Arab, I appreciate that you pronounce Baghdad correctly :)

[@HistoryScope]

In Dutch we pronounce the name almost the same as Iraqis, so that one was easy to do right.

[@PowerShellWizard]

@@HistoryScope check out Woulter Corduwener. He's dutch and a polygot. He also speaks Arabic

[@dowenssouverain173]

What’s the sound?

[@thomasjohnson2862]

Babe, wake up! I've been looking forward to this video for a while!

[@TarlanT]

Golden Horde was Muslim Turko-Mongol state. Most of the Mongol empire army and elites were Turkic. Starting from Berke everyone skor and wrote in Kupchak Turkic language. Modern Russian has almost no Mongol loanwords, but around 3000 Turkic ones. Uzbeg Khan adopted Islam as an official religion in 1340.

[@west-coast-willy]

These are soooo good. I loved Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series and this shines so much light on the reality.

[@me0101001000]

A great follow-up to this video is the Mongols series by Kings and Generals, if you really want to know more about their incredible military prowess.

[@zhcultivator]

please create a video about the Empires and Kingdoms of Early Modern Africa......

[@normanhamilton7533]

I see history scope, I press like!

[@ChinaBite]

great video

[@mouadouan]

this passage right here : " The Mongols would threaten to invade a country. That country would then assemble their army in defense. Then the Mongols would claim that they were being attacked because of that army in their border and therefore the Mongols should "invade in self-defense". " makes me think about a certain situation that "started" on Oct the 7th.

[@Brandonian]

When History Scope drops a new video, class is in session. I swear if this dude taught at university he’d be a great teacher. I’d take his class every semester, this dude makes history rule. It’s the best subject.

[@HistoryScope]

Sadly my autism prevents me from teaching in person.

[@michelmurr1949]

​@@HistoryScopeyour autisim also lead to making some amazing fucking vids. Salute bro been a subscriber for a long time.

[@thomasjohnson2862]

@@HistoryScope Sometimes in life your weakness is also your strength, and vice-versa, as we can see with all the great videos you make!

[@beyondborderfilms4352]

Do i my eyes deceive me? Or did history scope videos got better 🤩😍

[@envy1372]

Not even one mention of that “delllicccoussss chooochhllattteee” unbelievable.

[@lostShadowLord]

23:43 There a theory that the Mongals withdrew due to combat loses (they won the battles but the victory cost them too much) as they won't of hear about the death of the great Khan until the following year. There were reports of 'thousands' of Mongals died after that battle in Poland (not during but after) . Also supposedly they had trouble with European style fortification. Their also some reports that thet had trouble feeding their horses. There several reasons as wwhy the golden horde went 'nope not doing this now' regarding Europe

[@Nohandleyetf]

Make a video about Timurid empire, thank you.

[@aarondemiri486]

Peak channel be making peak videos.

[@cait6461]

Giggling at the Borg reference 😂

[@ed.7856]

You forgot they also influenced the creation of of katana in japan, the precursor of ninjas, stirrups, recurve bows, a robust and quick postal/messaging system, religious tolerance, the elimination of the assassin order, literal world trade in relative safety, and most importantly cultural assimilation and mixing.

[@XMANIAFLYYY]

Learned more about the mongols in this than learning about them in school lol

[@AbC-pj2op]

Ok very cool movie. Where season 2

[@michaelsomething7674]

Mongols are military people, and some people say the Russian learns or even mixed with mongols' blood. As a result, Russians are Mongol and Mongol are Russian. White on the outside, nomadic people on the inside.

[@Emilechen]

we focus too more on Mongol Empire, but too few on Northern Yuan dynasty and Oirat/Dzungar Empire,

[@Temuulen.J]

I think it is because Dzungar and Northern Yuan is late Mongol Empire history. Like fall of rome is not as exciting as the rise of it.

[@Emilechen]

@@Temuulen.J you are right, in fact, Dzungar Empire is also a very powerful empire, it has Xinjiang, Mongolia and even some part of Tibet as territory, if Dzungar Empire has survived, it would be a superpower in Asia, Qing China has spent 3 generations to fight against this giant nomad Empire, i hope more historic channels will cover this subject in the future :)

[@Temuulen.J]

You are right they were the first nomadic khanate to make their own cannons. I am also a descendant of Oirats(Durvud/Bayad specifically).

[@oakentree2186]

was this intentionally released at a similar time to the pc port of ghost of tsushima

[@dariakozlova9657]

Did I just miss the conquest of Rus? or it was not mentioned?

[@omarmousa787]

Can you do video about ancient Egypt?

[@gigis3350]

No build orders in the video?!

[@aimbotwithouttheaim4520]

Just when I was looking for the perfect video to watch before sleeping!

[@NSHUTINoble]

Please do a Ming dynasty video!!! There are no good vids 'bout that.

[@HistoryScope]

We probably will at some point

[@orboakin8074]

That Camel-Horse bit was a nice reference to Cyrus's conquest😂

[@FromThentoNow97]

"We didn't know we were making history, we were just having fun" - Genghis Khan

[@itemtest1]

It's crazy how fast they did it considering their level of technology at the start 🤔🤔

[@Tortledripreal]

1:26 when I saw this I literally yelled in my house “IS THAT THE GUY FROM CLASH OF CLANS?!” And proceeded to be grounded for 1 day

[@zhcultivator]

please make a video about the Inca Empire and another about the empires and kingdoms of Early Modern Africa.

[@ROPON69420]

this channel keeps teaching me that nepotism sucks

[@krzysztofswierdza4845]

Hey, great video! I’ve been thinking about something regarding the mongol empire lately and this seems like the perfect place to ask😅 I’ve seen a lot of maps that show the mongols controlling Siberia but as far as I know they didn’t really have any power there. Is this some form of a common mistake or is this more a thing of defining what gets painted mongol on the map and what doesn’t despite certain level of control over the region?

[@ZaneB-z4l]

That's a great question. As far as I know whether the mongols ruled around the arctic coast of siberia or not is debatable to this day. However, siberia had an even smaller population than today and and a lot of the tribes were considered as fellow mongols due to having similar languages, cultures and nomadic lifestyle and were often recruited into the mongol army and were mostly controlled by the classic mongol queen strategy where they would have the siberian chiefs and their sons sent off to battle and the mongol queen would essentially work as chieftain most of the time. Although because of being considered somewhat mongol they weren't under as much subjugation is what I was taught. (I'm a Mongolian who went to a russian school)

[@krzysztofswierdza4845]

Thanks, that’s really cool to learn (especially from a native) but wouldn’t that kind of make most the Siberian tribes small vassal states/close allies to the Mongols? I’d love to get a history of Siberia video on this channel, just idk how realistically possible it’d be to make one with the little reliable knowledge there is from before the Russian colonisation and all the propaganda after it, but It would be awesome tho.

[@HistoryScope]

From what we could tell, the north is not fertile enough for a horde to survive. They simply were incapable of controlling that far north.

[@krzysztofswierdza4845]

@@HistoryScope Thanks 😊

[@Razgriz032]

Is China dynasty series discontinued?

[@HistoryScope]

No. We're just not going to focus only on China.

[@Kokkalissurgery]

Super!

[@marcomongke3116]

I am not certain, but Khamag Mongol shouldn't be a clan. Because the word "khamag" simply means "all, every" in Mongolian. It's almost similar to the concept of Great Britain.

[@LarryEze-lt7kq]

I could've gone through life and never known that horses are afraid of camels..

[@Oujouj426]

18:45 so like the Roman Empire, and just about every empire pre-modern times, got it.

[@villesson2275]

Please do a sequal! I love all your videos they´re fantastic and this topic is truly facinating!

[@Oujouj426]

27:44 as a Latvian, I promise you that Mongol admixture here is close to none. We probably have mire subsaharan African.

[@talkingdrumpidoras]

Same to Russian and Ukrainian. They are not descendants of mongols. Most of the descendants are Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tatar and other turkic ethnicities that are located in Central Asia or a part of Russia.

[@thomasjohnson2862]

Rise of Russia would be brilliant; great work as always Avery!