Nomads at War: 'Steppe Terror' in the Mongol and Manchu Conquests
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2005-04-06
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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Abstract
The mounted herdsmen of Central Asia have repeatedly formed cavalry armies
that destroyed and dominated all enemies. Following in the path of the ancient
Xiongnu, Turkish and Uighur empires, the Mongol tribes led by Genghiz Khan
and his descendants are the best-known example, creating in the thirteenth
century the largest land empire this world has ever known. Rooted in the
same tradition of nomadic conquest, Timur the Lame created an empire in
West Asia; Babur founded the Mughal empire in the sixteenth century;
Nurhaci and his descendants (the Qing dynasty) conquered China in the
seventeenth century, and Nadir Shah routed the Mughals in the eighteenth
century.
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Keywords
Mongols, Manchus