The Entire History of the Mongol Empire in 14 Minutes

In 1206, about a million herders lived on the grasslands of Mongolia. Seventy years later, the grandsons of one of them ruled from Korea to Ukraine: the largest connected land empire in history. It was built by a boy who had once been left to starve on the steppe, and within about 150 years most of it was gone. This is the whole story, from Temujin's childhood to the last khanates, fully animated. CHAPTERS 0:00 The empire that came from nowhere 0:39 The land of endless grass 1:26 The outcast boy 2:28 Temujin unites the steppe 3:32 The Mongol war machine 4:40 The gates of China 5:30 The biggest mistake in history 6:57 The death of Genghis Khan 7:31 Into Europe 8:38 The fall of Baghdad 9:41 Brothers at war 10:18 Kublai Khan's China 11:18 The Mongol peace and the Black Death 12:01 How the empire vanished 13:03 What the Mongols left behind SOURCES Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mongol empire — https://www.britannica.com/place/Mong... Encyclopaedia Britannica, Genghis Khan — https://www.britannica.com/biography/... Wikipedia, Mongol Empire (with its references) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_... The Secret History of the Mongols (13th century) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sec... Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_... Siege of Baghdad (1258) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_o...) Battle of Mohi and Battle of Legnica (1241) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... Mongol invasions of Japan (1274, 1281) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_... Black Death and the siege of Caffa (1346) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_D... Great Stand on the Ugra River (1480) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_S... Zerjal et al. (2003), The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols, American Journal of Human Genetics — https://doi.org/10.1086/367774 Dates and numbers from medieval chroniclers are often disputed; where historians disagree, the video says so. MUSIC Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): "Heroic Age", "Lord of the Land", "Ancient Rite", "Desert City". Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... HOW THIS VIDEO WAS MADE Research and script by the author. Every map, character and scene is drawn in code, frame by frame: no stock footage and no AI images. Map relief: NASA Blue Marble (GIBS); coastlines and rivers: Natural Earth. Narration is an AI voice.