High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1235
Mongols hold great kurultai at Karakorum
1235
Ogedei Khan, Genghis's successor, gathered the princes of the house of Borjigin at the new Mongol capital. They authorized simultaneous campaigns against Song China, the Middle East, and the kingdoms of eastern Europe. Karakorum's walls rose to house the spoils. The decision to attack on three fronts simultaneously demonstrated a logistical ambition that no other medieval power could have attempted or sustained.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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