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.