Golden horde

Ottoman Soldiers, 16th Century

The Mongolian Empire reached quite a vast extent according to the map below and leaders such as Genghis Khan seemed to defeat all their enemies consistently. Yet, the empire never extended into Eur...

Mongolian Archers of Golden Horde

As a much more powerful and influential Khanate than the Chagatai, the Golden Horde is one of the better known of the Mongol empires, p...

They were a legendary unit and the heaviest cavalry to be ever fielded by a Chinese polity. The 铁浮屠, or "Iron Buddha Cavalry" or 铁浮图 "Iron Pagoda Horsemen," were the elite unit of the Jurchen Jin 金 dynasty that was instrumental in the 30 year supremacy of the Jin State. Though they only served for no more than two decades, they were pivotal in no less than a dozen crucial battles and hundreds of skirmishes that secured the Jin realm.

The Last thing you saw, 700 years ago...

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