WI: The Mongols Convert Make Tengrism into an Established Religion

So, now there are Tengrist temples, and Tengrism is henotheistic to a degree. They also force Tengrism on their conquered Subjects. So Persia, Russia and a large population in China and North-West India are now Tengrists. How Plausible is this and what are the consequences?
 
Well, there are ways to convert huge populations slowly but steadily. Harangue the Non-Tengrists, Levy taxes on them, Force local noblemen to convert and instruct them to decree their subjects to convert. Follow it up with occasional episodes of mass brutality... all that stuff.
 
For the most part the Mongols didn't convert anyone during their conquests themselves (the aftermath is a different story) and they were only able to survive so long due to their tolerance. If they attempt to impose Tengri shamanism on the population, the empire will collapse in a matter of years as massive revolts break out everywhere, and the Mongols are too badly overstretched to fight back.
 
Well, they don't impose it immediately. After they split into Khanates and are accepted as ruling dynasties by their subjects, they start the slow process of conversion.
 
Well, they don't impose it immediately. After they split into Khanates and are accepted as ruling dynasties by their subjects, they start the slow process of conversion.

No one would convert though, at the time most Christians and Muslims would rather die than embrace polytheism.
 
No one would convert though, at the time most Christians and Muslims would rather die than embrace polytheism.

I wouldn't be too sure of that. The majority of people are broken pretty quickly and Mongols were good at being brutal. Christianity/Islam is no immunity to that. Also we can make changes to Tengrism to make it Henotheistic/monotheistic. It already places more emphasis on "The Eternal Blue Sky" (Tengri) than other spirits. It is not much of jump from that to saying Tengri is the only God.
 
No one would convert though, at the time most Christians and Muslims would rather die than embrace polytheism.

There we have the problem:

MONOTHEIST: I'd rather die than bow to your pagan gods!

KHAN: Suits me.

Bonk.

MONOTHEIST II: Er... can we talk about this?

KHAN: No.

MONOTHEIST II: All hail the gods of the mighty Khan!
 
There we have the problem:

MONOTHEIST: I'd rather die than bow to your pagan gods!

KHAN: Suits me.

Bonk.

MONOTHEIST II: Er... can we talk about this?

KHAN: No.

MONOTHEIST II: All hail the gods of the mighty Khan!

How is that a problem, considering it satisfies what we are looking for here
 

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There we have the problem:

MONOTHEIST: I'd rather die than bow to your pagan gods!

KHAN: Suits me.

Bonk.

MONOTHEIST II: Er... can we talk about this?

KHAN: No.

MONOTHEIST II: All hail the gods of the mighty Khan!

Khan: Nice

Khan: turn around

10 second later

Khan: Fall down with a dagger in his back

MONOTHEIST II: Pagan swine
 
After seeing thousands of his countrymen die horrible, I doubt Mr. Monotheist will attempt that.

Actually, the death of thousands of his coreligionists will propably make a lot of monotheists only more determined to kill their oppressors.

The blood of martyrs tends to have a rather peculiar effect on the human psyche.
 
So, now there are Tengrist temples, and Tengrism is henotheistic to a degree. They also force Tengrism on their conquered Subjects. So Persia, Russia and a large population in China and North-West India are now Tengrists. How Plausible is this and what are the consequences?

Well, if the Mongols were to create and impose a more organized form of Tengriism, then the Mongol empire will be far, far less successful and far more destructive than it was in OTL.

The Mongols owed a good part of their success to their religious and cultural tolerance.

Many eastern Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims fought in the Mongol army, meaning that, without their OTL religious tolerance, the Mongol army will be a lot smaller.

And even without starting religious persecution, the Mongols were already pretty damn destructive in OTL, and there are quite a few cases in which the Mongols humiliated clergymen and destroyed religious buildings in order to break the morale of the local population.

To give a few examples of this; the Persian Muslim chronicler Juvayni, who actually goes out of his way in order to portray Genghis Khan and his followers as friendly and sympathetic to the Muslims, mentions how the Mongols humiliated sheikhs and imams in Ferghana by forcing them to tend to their horses, how the Mongols trampled copies of the Qur'an with their horses in [IIRC] Bukhara, and how they deliberately singled out the great Friday Mosque of Samarkand for destruction.

If the Mongols were to impose their religion on their conquered subjects, then we'd see stuff like this happening on an even bigger scale.
 
You would also see a major decline in trade with the Western States, if there was an Established Religion, lack of merchants using the trade routes, breakdown in culture contacts with major players in the area. Mongols would be much weaker later, and there wouldn't be any contacts with a certain Merchant family from Italy.
 
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