Mongol World

Mongolian World is an hinge moment alternate history where Mongolia conquers most of the known world instead of collapsing. =Timeline =

Point of Divergence-1272
Kublai Khan, frustrated at Japan ignoring his emissaries, goes on a hunting trip in modern day Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. He and his horsemen encounter a small Chukchi fishing village. They are about to massacre the village when an old former-reindeer herder asks them to spare the village in exchange for information. He tells them of a mythical land called Alaska, which is filled with precious resources. Kublai spares the village and conscripts the old man and his herders as guides to “Alaska”. He prepares a large army to conquer the edge of Asia and eventually Alaska. He dismisses his ideas of invading Japan in hopes that they will eventually rely on Mongolia.

Reunification of Mongolia-1274-1280
The armies of the Yuan Dynasty march on an expedition to explore the tip of Asia in hopes of finding Alaska. They meet resistance from various native peoples, but they eventually gain an alliance due to a mutual admiration of each other’s warlike tendencies. Several cities are built in this land, now known to the mongols as Orokh(entrance) to refer to it being the entrance to the mythical land of Alaska. They build gold and tin mines and exploit a variety of exotic furs in the area, passing them down along the extended silk road. They impose a heavy tariff on all fur, gold, and tin exports going out of the Yuan Dynasty, causing the nearby Ilkhanate and Golden Horde to slowly become more dependent and indebted to the Yuan Dynasty. By the end of 1280, the four Khanates were virtually united under Kublai Khan and were growing to be very powerful.

The Hojo-Mongol Schism-1281-1291
Throughout the Reunification period, Japan became more reliant on Mongolia until its feeble Shogunate was merely a vassaldom. Over time, more and more Mongol troops began to be stationed in Japan as a training ground for Kublai’s “Mongol Navy”. The Hojo Clan, a powerful class in Japan and current regents of the Shogun, greatly opposed the Mongol Presence. They attempted a coup to seize control from the puppet Shogun, but failed and were chased out to Okinawa where they seized the power of the local dynasties. They declared themselves the “True Shogunate of Japan” and attempted to gain favor with the Japanese lords on the mainland who resented Mongol rule. They began the training of Shinobi, paramilitary spies and assassins used in the feudal period which had faded into obscurity, for use in guerilla warfare against the so-called “Puppet Shogun”. Eventually, after the attempted assassination of the Shogun by a Hojo-sponsored Shinobi, the Mongol Navy launched a raid on Okinawa. The island was burned to the ground and completely pillaged. This frightening display of power convinced many anti-Mongol noblemen to change their minds. The Shinobi, who were mercenaries, were recruited into the ranks of the ever-increasing Mongol Military. ==The Conquests of Temur Khan-1294-1307 == Throughout the Reunification process, Kublai Khan and his advisors began to develop a complex system that would choose the next great Khan of the empire without the bloodshed and rivalries of the previous successions. On his deathbed, Kublai’s system went into place and Temur Khan was elected as the next Khan. In OTL, he was very conservative with his military due to the crushing blows of the wars with Vietnam. In this timeline, there were no wars with Vietnam so he wasn’t as conservative. He used the Mongol Navy in its first full-scale invasion of Malaysia. The current Buddhist dynasties were taken by surprise and quickly fell to the Mongols. This opened up a variety of trade routes with the Tamil Kings and Chola Dynasty of India. Temur also made significant conquests in the middle east using his newly trained Shinobi Assassins. The European Crusaders had been facing major threats from the Mamluk Sultanate which controlled most of the middle east. They had prevented a possible Franco-Mongol Alliance through amazing strategy and the Mongols considered them too much of a problem. An elite squadron of Shinobi, mostly recruited from the destroyed Nizari Assassins’ order, snuck into Egypt and assassinate Baibars, the Sultan of the Mamluks. This plunged the Mamluk Empire into chaos, allowing it to be divided up between European Powers and the Mongols. The middle east was then split between the Mongols and several European Kingdoms. ==Euro-Mongol Tensions(East-West Schism)-1307-1400 == 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">After Temur Khan’s death, a new Khan was appointed named Alaysk Kh

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">an, after the mythical land of Alaska described by the reindeer herder to Kublai. (They were unable to reach Alaska due to the weather). Alaysk modernized the Mongol army by equipping it with guns manufactured en-masse in China. Soon, their superior fighting forces began to clash with the Crusader Kingdoms over portions of Israel and Eastern Europe. Several uprisings of eastern european steppe people caused the Khans to grant them independence if they would help them in military battles. These peoples became developed a similar role to the Cossacks in OTL Russia. After a skirmish between these Cossacks(called Kazaks in this universe), and the Kingdom of Livonia, Mongolia indirectly declared war with them. In 1350, the Mongol Vassal known as the United Confederacy of Caliphs invaded the Livonian crusader kingdom of Aleppo. Aleppo was quickly conquered and the Livonians protested against this by asking for help from the other crusader states. The other states, most of which had trading pacts with the Mongols, refused. Livonia was raided and severely weakened by the Kazaks. This act made the nation even more reliant on the Mongols. They continued to use this strategy on other kingdoms until all the kingdoms of Eastern Europe(Hungary, Transylvania, the Balkan Kingdoms, Poland, Finland and Lithuania) were made into Vassal Doms by the Mongols. In response to this, the kingdoms of France, Spain, Prussia, England, the Italian Kingdoms, and Scotland made a coalition against the Mongols known as the Western Coalition. They engaged in several acts of guerilla warfare before the Mongols’ superior sciences(in comparison with crude biblical studies of pre-renaissance europe) caught up to them. Soon, Mongol heavy cannons and siege equipment aided by valiant Kazak cavalries raided and destroyed the great cities of Europe in the “Great Siege” of 1400. This day would be remembered in history for years. Severely weakened, the european nations would return to an era of constant war between various kingdoms. The Mongols used this to extract necessary resources from Europe without making it a Vassal. The era of struggle between united europe and Mongolia became known as the East-West Schism.