WI: Khutulun becomes Khan/Khatun

Khutulun, the famous Mongol warrior-princess who was a wrestler and a fierce warrior. She was her father’s (Kaidu) favorite child, whom he sought political advice and support.

Accounts say that her father, wanted her to be his heir, but her male relatives rejected it, and in 1306, she died.

But what if she manage to gain the Throne? What if she and her father defy tradition and she manages, with support, defeats her relatives, and she become Khan/Khatun of the Chagatai Khanate.

What does she do now as Khan/Khatun?
How does the other khans, like Kublai, react?
Does she try to expand? Maybe even attack the other khanates?
How does she do diplomatically with Europeans, the Middle East, or other parts of Asia?
 


I know that in the Mongolian Empire females had been acting more than once as the regents but was there a precedent for them being a direct ruler? Genghis was quite explicit about selection of the males as the Great Khans but was this rule expanded to the uluses within the empire or khanates after empire disintegrated?
 

Kaze

Banned
The problem with a woman Khan is many. Firstly, she would have to get her men behind her. Secondly - the other khans might think her to be a weak and attack her. Thirdly - she is not Great Khan, that was Kublai's family, there would be fighting with her (IRL - there was some of this anyway as her ruling the Khanate as a puppet). Fourthly, the chimera of the Franco-Mongol Alliance must be considered in balance with the trend of taking on the local religions.
 
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