Mongol Central Asia

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5 - Mongol Central Asia

The Chaghadaids and the Ögödeids, 1260–1370

from Volume I Part 1 - Political History

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2024

Michal Biran

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Hodong Kim

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Michal Biran: Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hodong Kim: Affiliation:
Seoul National University

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This chapter outlines the history of Mongol Central Asia, known as the Chaghadaid Khanate, the least documented but most enduring of the Mongol successor states. Squeezed between the Chinggisid polities, lacking a strong sedentary basis, and home to two competing uluses, the Middle Mongolian Ulus, as the Mongols in Central Asia called themselves, was often plagued by warfare and suffered from “brain drain.” Yet it not only played a leading role in the dissolution of the Mongol Empire, but also introduced a political culture that impacted Central Asia up to the nineteenth century; contributed to the Islamization of eastern Central Asia; was the root of two of the most influential early modern empires, the Timurids and Mughals; and gave its name, Chaghatay, to the Eastern Turkic language. The chapter discusses its political history during the Mongol moment, and briefly reviews its postimperial history and aspects of economy, administration, and culture.

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Chaghadaid khanate Ögödeids Central Asia emigration Silk Roads Islamization Chinggisid political culture

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