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If the Mongols are disunited, could a unification of tribal confederacies be led by chiefs from a different ethnic group, which in turn would lead to an alternate invasion of China, Persia and Europe? I thought I saw something like this discussed in the discussion thread for Chaos TL, but I may be mistaken.

Looking around (I confess, at Wikipedia) I got the impression that a sufficient diplomatic disaster in the 1120s could derail the Song-Jurchen alliance against the Liao Dynasty, and perhaps, with the right leadership, enough factors pushing against further, um, 'sedentarisation', and a morphic-twin-Temujin we could see an unlikely Khitan Conquest.

Further back, there are the Göktürk and Uyghur empires...
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