Kara-Kitai (Chaos)

The Kara-Kitai were one of the in Central Asia.

In 1212 (as OTL), Shah Muhammad of defeated the Gur-Khan Kutluk and conquered the lands of the Kara-Kitai, to whom the Choresmians once had had to pay tribute.

1234, the Kara-Kitai were defeated by the. now reigned the biggest (if sparely populated) empire on the planet. But as soon as 1241, Ogadai died, and the designated successor, his son Guyuk couldn't hold them together. Jalal-ad-Din could use the situation for a counter-attack and drove the Mongols back behind Lake Balchash. The steppe people once again fell apart, not to be united at least for decades, waiting for another strong leader.

During the 1240s however, some Kara-Kitai tribes displaced by the Mongols defeated the eastern Kipchaks, crossed the lower Volga, attacked the area south of Don and Volga and destroyed the little country of the Alans, a leftover of the völkerwanderung. In 1246,, who became a Kipchak leader, defeated the Kara-Kitai, threw them back behind the Don.

After Shah died in 1255, some areas of his empire (Kara-Kitai, Afghanistan) tried to break away. The Kara-Kitai managed to stay independent, while Afghanistan was pacified in the following years and stayed in the fold.

Later history
When in the 1380s steppe people leader drove the Kara-Kitai and other Siberian people west, they also harassed the Volga area. That's why the eastern Russian princes made Yuryevich of  their leader, to fight them.

In the 1750s, the began. The Novorussians fought the Kara-Kitai and other steppe people (Kirghiz, even what remained of the Kipchaks) between and Choresm.