The 22 July 1246 the two friars arrived in Karakorum, where they discovered that Ogodei's successor had not yet been chosen and power was temporarily in the hands of one of his wives. However the new ...

At the death of Chagatai in 1241, the khanate would pass into the hands of his relative Kaidu, grandson of his brother Ogodei (Genghis’s son who had inherited supreme Mongol command). Kaidu opposed ...

Mongol rulers Chengiz Khan and Ogodei took over vast stretches of land up to the fringes of Europe. The Chagatai branch of the Chengiz Khan family clashed with the Sultans of Delhi in the 13th Century ...

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She became a close aide to Toregene, the sixth wife of Ogodei Khan, the second emperor of the Mongol Empire. He succeeded Genghis Khan, the founder of the empire. After the death of Ogodei, Toregene ...

In 1230, Ogodei, now the Great Khan, marched on China to finish his father’s work, destroying the Chin Empire by 1234 and, turning south to overthrow the Song. The task the Mongols set ...

His successor, his son Ogodei, led the Mongols into Russia in 1235 and into Eastern Europe by 1240. Multiple Mongol commanders brought at least 130,000 troops and perhaps as many as half a million ...

În 1236, Ogodei, cel de-al treilea fiu al lui Ghenghis Han, şi-a aruncat hoardele asupra Europei. Până în 1240, călăreţii mongoli controlau teritoriul de astăzi al Rusiei, Ucrainei, României, ...

His son, Ogodei Khan (1229-1241) completed the conquest of northern China then sent his forces West to attack Russia, leading to the capture of Kiev in 1240. The obvious next move was to cross the ...

When Genghis Khan died in 1227, he left his son, Ogodei, a territory that extended from northeast China to the Caspian Sea, just north of modern-day Iran. In total, it measured an astounding 11 ...