Khwarezm Shahdom repell the Mongols

POD Shah Alaeddin Mohammed dies as the Governor of Otrar kills the Mongols emissaries.

Jalal-Al-Din becomes Shah and masses the Khwarezm Army to meet the Mongols and defeats them instead of splitting them up to garrison cities like his father did.

How does this affect things?

Does the Khwarezm Shahdom go into China or India, or try to settle the score with the Abbassids?
 
just because the Mongols lose one battle doesn't mean they are defeated totally, and just because the Khwarezm defeats the Mongols doesn't make them a superpower. Mongol raids against the Shahdom would continue for decades if not centuries, even if it did not get conquered. so it would probably get weakened over time, and eventually collapse.
 
just because the Mongols lose one battle doesn't mean they are defeated totally, and just because the Khwarezm defeats the Mongols doesn't make them a superpower. Mongol raids against the Shahdom would continue for decades if not centuries, even if it did not get conquered. so it would probably get weakened over time, and eventually collapse.

Mongol raids will do jack shit to the Empire unless they capture cities which they won't be able to do without siege equipment and if the Mongols are kept out they'll more likely than not be penned in China and Eurasia without the wealth of the Khwarezm Empire to spur them on.
 
Mongol raids will do jack shit to the Empire unless they capture cities which they won't be able to do without siege equipment and if the Mongols are kept out they'll more likely than not be penned in China and Eurasia without the wealth of the Khwarezm Empire to spur them on.

This is essentially correct the wealth of the Khwarezm Empire enabled further expansion and with out said wealth and the opening of the rich
Muslim Empires the Mongols are a footnote.
 
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