Mongol Empire survived

What if the great Mongol emire survived the death of Genghis Khan? Let's say that one of Genghis Khan's sons became the new emperor.
Would it conquer the rest af Asia and Europe?
When would it fall apart? (or maybe it would still exist)
How would the modern world map look like?
 

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Urr, a unified Mongol Empire did survive Chengis' death. Have you forgotten Ogedai?
The Empire also pretty much held firm under Mongke. Its only after him that things get messed up with Kublai lacking the same kind of undisputed authority and the Chagatai and Golden Horde converting to Islam further complicated things.
 
Urr, a unified Mongol Empire did survive Chengis' death. Have you forgotten Ogedai?
You're right. But finally, at the beginning of XIII century the empire divided into Golden Orde, Chagatai Khanate, Yuan dynasty and other states. It was caused by the civil war, right?
What if there was no civil war 1260-64?
 

scholar

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You're right. But finally, at the beginning of XIII century the empire divided into Golden Orde, Chagatai Khanate, Yuan dynasty and other states. It was caused by the civil war, right?
What if there was no civil war 1260-64?
Actually, all of those Khanates were sub-organizations of the Mongol Empire. Autonomous "states" that were given clear rights to conquer and expand where they wished. Most of the Mongol Conquests not directly carried out by Genghis Khan were carried out by these Khanates. The division was there from its inception.

Keeping it together requires strong leadership (Mongke was the last effective Khagan of the entire Mongol Empire, with Kublai and a few of his descendents exerting some control over the Il Khanate alone), cultural unity (this was starting to break apart because of the various people that were conquered, only maybe a few ten thousand of the people in these khanates were Mongolian, a few hundred thousand Turkic, the rest natives), and a lack of religious conflict (the Mongols were excellent when they were largely above religious problems, or slightly leaning to Buddhism or Christianity, once they made the plunge to strict Islam-Buddhist divides the khanates were irreconcilable until conversion).

So, you need a Khan's Khan, a Mongol Khan's Khan ruling over Mongol Khans, and a Mongol's Khan's Khan who could enforce tolerance for all religions amongst his religiously diverse or secular Mongol Khans.
 
Alternative flag

That's a alternative flag of Mongol Empire after the conquest of eastern Europe.

Mongol empire flag.png
 
I dont believe the maximum extent would remain the borders until present day.

The most viable is shrink it down to a size wherein the Mongol army has a very distinct advantage in the local terrain, like OTL present day Mongolia and OTL present day Central Asia.

This ATL Mongol empire should also adapt to modern warfare by the time cavalry becomes obsolete, especially armoured and air warfare just to survive any foreign intrusion.

Because of its mangeable size, it would be to fused it to a unified state.
 
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