Question

Mongol Impact on Russia and Islamic World between 600-1450 ce?

i have to "evaluate the effect of mongol expansion" on these two regions. i don't know a good way to say it in this essay.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

During Mongol expansion, firstly, a whole new set countries were created, these were: The Golden Horde, The Ilkhanate, Chagatai, and the Great Khanate (also known as the Yuan Dynasty).

Obviously, the ones we are evaluating right now consist of the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate.

Basically, the Mongolians belonged to the Tengri faith, this obviously caused conflicts when the Ilkhanate and the Golden Horde were established, this being as in those particular regions, people belonged to the Islamic and Orthodox faiths.

Another thing could be how the Mongols worked, as you can see by the map (due to their large empires), you could infer that they were relatively powerful. It is important to take into consideration that Russia, at the time, was a lot of principalities (Muscovy, Tver, Vladimir, etc.) What the Golden Horde did, is that they demanded tribute from all these little states, which effectively made them semi-vassals to the Mongols, as they couldn't really object to it, because none were powerful enough to do anything about it.

It was the same case with the Ilkhanate (All the little Anatolian beyliks, all the little nations in the Caucasus, some of the nations in the Arabian peninsula.

Regarding religion in the later periods, both the leaders of the Golden Horde and Ilkhanate converted to Sunni Islam at a point, basically, in the case of the Golden Horde, for instance, spreading Islam rather extensively across the land (for instance, in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, most nations were Orthodox Christians.)

As you can see regarding the Ilkhans, when it ceased to be a nation, they basically set the stage for Tamerlane's invasion of India at a later date.