High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1246
Guyuk elected Great Khan
1246
At a lavish kurultai near Karakorum attended by envoys from Korea to Georgia, Ogedei's son Guyuk was raised on a felt carpet as third Great Khan. His short reign was marked by drink, disease, and a bristling letter to the pope demanding submission. His death barely two years later plunged the empire into a succession crisis that shifted power from Ogedei's line to Tolui's descendants forever.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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