High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1227
Ogedei Khan elected as successor
1227
At a great kurultai on the Kerulen River, the Mongol princes confirmed Genghis Khan's choice of his third son Ogedei as Great Khan. The new ruler, a gifted administrator and legendary drinker, would expand the empire more efficiently than his father, building Karakorum and authorizing simultaneous campaigns on four fronts.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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