Impact of a mongol tribe taking root in North America?

If a mongol tribe either deliberately or through sheer luck/error arrived in North America and settled there around the 13th century what kind of impact would have arrived?

This is assuming they bought with them horses and other beasts of burden along with their metal working capabilities.
 

Kaze

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How exactly did they arrive? Did one of Kublai's ships go missing? Or did they cross over the ice through Siberia into Alaska. If the former - the horses might become food for the mongols, the trip across the pacific is a tough one. If the latter - then you have a Mongol Tribe in Alaska - now what?
 
There's a timeline exactly on this topic but I have no idea what it was called; haven't seen it updated in a while but it was very well done.
 
They might just kill everyone with diseases, but then again, I think the Russians ended up eradicating a lot of Mongols in OTL with diseases during their conquest of Siberia, so maybe not. Militarily, if we are talking about a full Tumen arriving in North America, they would decimated everyone and everything in their path. However, by introducing the horse to North America, they would change the balance of power as things existed. My guess is that they would establish some kind of Plains Empire but perhaps not go too much further south into the population bombs in Central America because they would need to stay at least close to the kinds of grazing lands they needed, not to mention the port(s) that they develop for communication with Siberia.
 
There's a timeline exactly on this topic but I have no idea what it was called; haven't seen it updated in a while but it was very well done.
Might you be thinking of The Horse and the Jaguar, in which leaders of a Chinese/Mongol invasion of Indonesia decide that returning to the Great Khan with only failure to show might not be wise, and decide to get lost at sea, subsequently reaching Mesoamerica? This ended up with Mongols on the Great Plains.
 
Might you be thinking of The Horse and the Jaguar, in which leaders of a Chinese/Mongol invasion of Indonesia decide that returning to the Great Khan with only failure to show might not be wise, and decide to get lost at sea, subsequently reaching Mesoamerica? This ended up with Mongols on the Great Plains.

Yep, that's exactly it
 
They might just kill everyone with diseases
there's a good question... as a nomadic/livestock dependent people, did they carry any plague-type diseases common to the Old World? If so, then the NAs are going to suffer horrendous losses (particularly in North America), and the Mongols can set up their standard way of life on the prairie with ease...
 
there's a good question... as a nomadic/livestock dependent people, did they carry any plague-type diseases common to the Old World? If so, then the NAs are going to suffer horrendous losses (particularly in North America), and the Mongols can set up their standard way of life on the prairie with ease...

Would there not be a few centuries for population rebuild and perhaps immunity before the arrival of the Europeans?

Also I'd imagine a fair share of intermarriage and mixing between the Mongols and the indigenous Americans. The mongols tended to adopt the religions of those they conquered and native beliefs and traditions could possibility remain.
 
If a mongol tribe either deliberately or through sheer luck/error arrived in North America and settled there around the 13th century what kind of impact would have arrived?

This is assuming they bought with them horses and other beasts of burden along with their metal working capabilities.
Maybe an earlier Expedition to the Bering strait ? Maybe they built boats and reach Alaska ?
 
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