Mongols invade and take Europe

How can I make the mongols annex Europe? France, Italy, Benelux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, the Balkans, Poland, the rest of Asia Minor, and the Baltic States get invaded and annexed to the Mongol empire. The British Isles, Iberian Peninsula, Iceland, and Scandanivia are the only places in Europe that don’t get invaded and annexed. What are some societal and cultural byproducts of this mongol invasion?
 
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I believe you want the continuous Mongol Empire to take over, but the out thing I see that might successfully do that would be a breakoff of the Mongol Empire.
Maybe the Golden Horde other something comepletely different.
 
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How can I make the mongols annex Europe? France, Italy, Benelux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, the Balkans, Poland, the rest of Turkey, and the Baltic States get invaded and annexed to the Mongol empire. The British Isles, Iberian Peninsula, Iceland, and Scandanivia are the only places in Europe that don’t get invaded and annexed. What are some societal and cultural byproducts of this mongol invasion?

To start with, they did ‘annex’ a big part of Europe from Ural Mountains and all the way to Carpathians and Danube. Turkey at that did not exist: there was a falling apart former Seljuk empire with no possessions in Europe. Baltic States, Benelux, etc. are anachronistic names most of which do not make sense within framework of the mid-XIII century other than purely geographic references.

Now, about conquest itself. An answer is simple: they could not without a major change of the pattern of their conquests and some other fundamental things. They would need completely abandon conquest of China, stop activities on the Middle East, move capital to the steppes of Kazakhstan/Western Siberia and then to Volga and, during the reign of Genghis, to abolish a traditional system of apanages. Combination of these actions would allow a concentrated effort in the Western direction. Within the OTL arrangements there simply were not resources adequate for the task. Of course, conquest would have to be done intelligently, by attracting the local resources and offering reasonable conditions to those ready to became vassals (as was done in China, Rus and elsewhere).

Of course, even then ‘annexation’ would mean vassal relations toward the Khanate as was general pattern in the cases of non-steppe territories (after Genghis) because it would be rather difficult to maintain a large scale nomadic presence outside the steppe belt. The whole thing could somewhat change over time with a gradual change toward sedentary/semi-nomadic life style.

To stabilize control over these possessions there would be a need for conversion into Christianity, preferably Catholicism, creating a modified HRE ruled by the Genghizides. Conquest of the Latin Empire and overlordship of the restored Byzantine Empire would lend a new regime an additional prestige because a new Emperor would be overlord of the whole “Roman Empire” with the rest of the European rulers being his vassals.

There would be also a need to revise Genghis’ Yasa to expand it to nin-nomadic people.

All this being said, why would anybody marginally sane chose conquest of a stinking dump of the XIII century Western Europe over conquest of China and Middle East? :)
 
To start with, they did ‘annex’ a big part of Europe from Ural Mountains and all the way to Carpathians and Danube. Turkey at that did not exist: there was a falling apart former Seljuk empire with no possessions in Europe. Baltic States, Benelux, etc. are anachronistic names most of which do not make sense within framework of the mid-XIII century other than purely geographic references.

Now, about conquest itself. An answer is simple: they could not without a major change of the pattern of their conquests and some other fundamental things. They would need completely abandon conquest of China, stop activities on the Middle East, move capital to the steppes of Kazakhstan/Western Siberia and then to Volga and, during the reign of Genghis, to abolish a traditional system of apanages. Combination of these actions would allow a concentrated effort in the Western direction. Within the OTL arrangements there simply were not resources adequate for the task. Of course, conquest would have to be done intelligently, by attracting the local resources and offering reasonable conditions to those ready to became vassals (as was done in China, Rus and elsewhere).

Of course, even then ‘annexation’ would mean vassal relations toward the Khanate as was general pattern in the cases of non-steppe territories (after Genghis) because it would be rather difficult to maintain a large scale nomadic presence outside the steppe belt. The whole thing could somewhat change over time with a gradual change toward sedentary/semi-nomadic life style.

To stabilize control over these possessions there would be a need for conversion into Christianity, preferably Catholicism, creating a modified HRE ruled by the Genghizides. Conquest of the Latin Empire and overlordship of the restored Byzantine Empire would lend a new regime an additional prestige because a new Emperor would be overlord of the whole “Roman Empire” with the rest of the European rulers being his vassals.

There would be also a need to revise Genghis’ Yasa to expand it to nin-nomadic people.

All this being said, why would anybody marginally sane chose conquest of a stinking dump of the XIII century Western Europe over conquest of China and Middle East? :)
That’s not what I meant. What I meant is that Westren Europe becomes a part of the Mongol empire at its height in OTTL. Meaning that the places I mentioned above will be in the same empire as China and the Middle East.
 
That’s not what I meant. What I meant is that Westren Europe becomes a part of the Mongol empire at its height in OTTL. Meaning that the places I mentioned above will be in the same empire as China and the Middle East.

I’m trying to make at least some practical sense out of your OP. The Mongols had more than one model of annexation and even during Genghis’ time their empire had vassal states.

Rus was a part of the Mongol “Empire” and its model (the same for Georgia and Armenia Minor) was much more applicable to the possible greater European conquest than Ilkhanate model. As for China, it was initially a viceroyalty under Mughali and later Khubilai became an emperor of China: title “empire” never officially applied to the Mongolian state - it was ruled by a Great Khan. Ilkhanate was just one of the apanages, just as the Great Horde and other uluses, which makes it quite different from China.

Anyway, you obviously don’t understand that what I described would make Europe a part of the Mongolian state: we are talking Middle Ages and sovereign - vassal relations had been quite normal. Actually, this is what the Mongols routinely requested from the rulers of the places they were going to invade.
 
I’m trying to make at least some practical sense out of your OP. The Mongols had more than one model of annexation and even during Genghis’ time their empire had vassal states.

Rus was a part of the Mongol “Empire” and its model (the same for Georgia and Armenia Minor) was much more applicable to the possible greater European conquest than Ilkhanate model. As for China, it was initially a viceroyalty under Mughali and later Khubilai became an emperor of China: title “empire” never officially applied to the Mongolian state - it was ruled by a Great Khan. Ilkhanate was just one of the apanages, just as the Great Horde and other uluses, which makes it quite different from China.

Anyway, you obviously don’t understand that what I described would make Europe a part of the Mongolian state: we are talking Middle Ages and sovereign - vassal relations had been quite normal. Actually, this is what the Mongols routinely requested from the rulers of the places they were going to invade.
Yes, but why would they need to abandon conquest of China and the Middle East? That’s what I originally meant. Oh yeah, because of their invasion patterns.
 
I’m trying to make at least some practical sense out of your OP. The Mongols had more than one model of annexation and even during Genghis’ time their empire had vassal states.

Rus was a part of the Mongol “Empire” and its model (the same for Georgia and Armenia Minor) was much more applicable to the possible greater European conquest than Ilkhanate model. As for China, it was initially a viceroyalty under Mughali and later Khubilai became an emperor of China: title “empire” never officially applied to the Mongolian state - it was ruled by a Great Khan. Ilkhanate was just one of the apanages, just as the Great Horde and other uluses, which makes it quite different from China.

Anyway, you obviously don’t understand that what I described would make Europe a part of the Mongolian state: we are talking Middle Ages and sovereign - vassal relations had been quite normal. Actually, this is what the Mongols routinely requested from the rulers of the places they were going to invade.
So Europe (All the places I mentioned in the OP.) would become its own khanate/vessel state? If not, then it will become part of the Golden Horde.
 
So Europe (All the places I mentioned in the OP.) would become its own khanate/vessel state? If not, then it will become part of the Golden Horde.

Forget the Golden Horde: in the scenario that I described it would not exist and its territory is a part of the land rulled directly by the Great Khan. The rest of Europe would operate under approximately the same model as Rus: vassals states of the Great Khan.

The only potential twist is a Catholic Great Khan. In this case he can become an emperor of the HRE and overlord of the Byzantine empire.
 
To stabilize control over these possessions there would be a need for conversion into Christianity, preferably Catholicism, creating a modified HRE ruled by the Genghizides. Conquest of the Latin Empire and overlordship of the restored Byzantine Empire would lend a new regime an additional prestige because a new Emperor would be overlord of the whole “Roman Empire” with the rest of the European rulers being his vassals.

There would be also a need to revise Genghis’ Yasa to expand it to non-nomadic people.

I’m trying to make at least some practical sense out of your OP. The Mongols had more than one model of annexation and even during Genghis’ time their empire had vassal states.

Rus was a part of the Mongol “Empire” and its model (the same for Georgia and Armenia Minor) was much more applicable to the possible greater European conquest than Ilkhanate model. As for China, it was initially a viceroyalty under Mughali and later Khubilai became an emperor of China: title “empire” never officially applied to the Mongolian state - it was ruled by a Great Khan. Ilkhanate was just one of the apanages, just as the Great Horde and other uluses, which makes it quite different from China.

Anyway, you obviously don’t understand that what I described would make Europe a part of the Mongolian state: we are talking Middle Ages and sovereign - vassal relations had been quite normal. Actually, this is what the Mongols routinely requested from the rulers of the places they were going to invade.
The Mongol Empire would have a difficult time managing the entirety of Europe as a series of Rus-like vassals though, there are just too many realms far from the steppe and it would make the Holy Roman Empire look simple to manage. At least some land would have to be appropriated as the "demesne" of a new khanate. For this, could the Mongols establish a second, semi-sedentary version of the Tatars for the agrarian part of Europe, that is, a multiethnic tribal grouping to organize "collaborationist" European princes and mounted soldiers under a smaller contingent of Borjigid and Turkic leadership?
 
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