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Chinggis Khan (c.1162-1227) and his successors established the second largest empire in history, next to the British empire. Considering it was a premodern period with limited resources and technologies, Mongol?s achievement was remarkable. Chinggis Khan?s military prowess and army made it possible.

There were significant differences in the ways armies were conscripted, organized, and fielded across Afro-Eurasia in the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries, although military technology did not differ dramatically. Moreover, armies related to their societies differently. For example, in settled societies, military training is a distraction from the pursuit of other forms of economic productivity, but in a nomadic society, a horseman is more integral to general social and economic pursuits, so there can be less differentiation between martial and other goals. In most societies, the elites saw themselves as participants in military culture, and many hunted rode hoses as leisure?Chinese elites were a notable exception.

Watch a video about Chinggis Khan, and read excerpts on Chinggis Khan and the Mongolian army. Discuss the organization and distinctiveness of the Mongolian army and society that led to the establishment of the Mongolian empire.

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