AH Challange: Mongolwank

The challenge is not to have the Mongols achieve the largest contiguous empire in the history of mankind, for they have already done that OTL, but to make it last more than the 160ish years it did in OTL. Preferably to present day, but at least up to 1500.


POD must be sometime after Temujin is born, and before the time when Kublai would have died OTL.




Note: Further territorial expansion is welcome, but not to the point it seriously injures stability.
 
How about a more limited Mongol Empire instead of a larger one? Say a Siberian-Central Asian-Korean-Manchurian one [1]: that would be easier to hold onto than the vast sprawl of OTL, and might last until the 19th century, when the development of modern armies becomes a serious issue (what with those pesky Russians to the west).

Bruce

[1] Holding onto Iran et al probably requires conversion to Islam, and I'm not sure if you consider an Islamic Khanate the same as a "Mongolwank."
 
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