The childrens of Genghis Khan

Could Mongolia remain a major power or even a super-power, and not tern into China's grassland?
 
Not really. Mongolia is just too minor.

You could have the Yuan dynasty last longer, or something like that, but that's about it.
 

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1. Splitting your conquest among your relatives was tradition, the Mongol Empire was bound to split after the death of the Great Khan.
2. Mongolia was minor, the new dynasties needed powerful seats, thus Persia, Bukhara, China, the Volga etc. made more sense than on the steppes. Empires needed capitals. This in turn leads to assimilation of the Mongol rulers with their populace.
 
I thought about something like a mongolian empire that rules greater mongolia, northern china (including the beijing area), manchuria, south+east siberia, west china and parts of kazakhstan.
Does that enough for a lasting empire?
 
I thought about something like a mongolian empire that rules greater mongolia, northern china (including the beijing area), manchuria, south+east siberia, west china and parts of kazakhstan.
Does that enough for a lasting empire?

It might be a lasting empire, or it might not be, but it wouldn't regard Mongolia as anything more than ancestral homeland.

Mongols triumphant still are going to build an empire with the power coming from areas outside Mongolia. The Great Steppes don't produce much.
 
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