Genghis Khan lives longer

It probably wouldn't change all that much to be honest. The Mongol succession wasn't something where the khagan appointed his successor, it was an elected position by the kurultai. Genghis living a few more years is unlikely to change the kurultai's decision. I suppose you could have butterflies in the next few years and have Chagtai get elected instead of Ogedai, but I don't really know how he'd be any different from his brother.
 
I suppose you could have butterflies in the next few years and have Chagtai get elected instead of Ogedai,

I doubt it. Genghis was pretty adamant about keeping the empire united, and Chagatai had a pretty big bone to pick with the Jochids (which is totally against uniting the empire). Ogedei was chosen as a compromise, sometime shortly after the Khwarezmid campaign (1221).

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I doubt it. Genghis was pretty adamant about keeping the empire united, and Chagatai had a pretty big bone to pick with the Jochids (which is totally against uniting the empire). Ogedei was chosen as a compromise, sometime shortly after the Khwarezmid campaign (1221).

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Thanks, I'm not too knowledgeable on the internal politics of the mongols.
 
I wrote a TL on this a few years back. I think it was called something like "the crying man: the world of a longer lived Genghis khan".
It did tackle it more from a religious POV though, and in hindsight a few of the choices I disagree with.
 
not that much longer, maybe have him hit 70

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_siege_of_Kaifeng

He might be present for the fall of Kaifeng then, and if butterflies cause the China campaign to be hurried up a little, he could see the final end of the Jin before he dies. With means a few more people in China die. Nothing else major happened 1227-1234 or so, so I don't see any reason why much else should be altered.

Of course, centuries down the line those people killed at Kaifeng might be missed and butterflies happen there, but as I don't know what any of them did, it is hard to say what that would look like.

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