How a Mongol Prince lived in the Golden Horde/ Nogai #2

Today, we look at what life was like for a Mongol prince living in the Golden Horde, through the example of Nogai (c.1237-1300), the infamous (and I argue, erroneously depicted) khanmaker of the late thirteenth century Golden Horde.

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The Mongol Mission: Narratives and letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Translated by a Nun of Stanbrook Abbey. Edited by Christopher Dawson. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1955.

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MUSIC ATTRIBUTIONS:

[TheJackmeisterMongolHistory]

Since I don't know if this is as clear as I wanted: this is looking specifically at the Jochid lands in the mid-thirteenth century, during Nogai's youth. This changes quite a bit in the fourteenth century, particularly under Özbeg Khan. I hope to at some point do a video which demonstrates this, and talks about the cities of the Golden Horde.

[pinchevulpes]

Just got the image of massive carts moving across the steppe in the arrangement you mentioned with the smaller carts rolling in thousands before the princely ones. What an image to picture! The only film I had seen that tries to portray the Golden Horde is that recent Russian film of the same title, but I had never pictured carts in such grandeur, some were probably brilliantly decorated with the colors of each Prince.

[superfly]

Great to see you back, Jack!
It’s remarkable Chinggis Khaan lived to 64-65 considering most of the Khaans died really young due to their lack of diet discipline.

[zeynepolgun]

He said "kolay gelsin" at the end! OMG The Jackmeister speaks Turkish!!

[magnushorus]

excellent video... great info and btw you have the perfect voice for narration

[Toktobay]

greetings as crimean tatar turk. golden horde is turco-mongol empire

[fredocorleone]

Hope someday they will create a series about Mongol empire (like Vikings or GoT) from Genghis to division of empire to different khanates.

[harzemsahtekin]

On the contrary of their Khans, Noyans just living so fucking much longer.
Many of Temujin's comrade saw reign of Möngke Khan

[iceblu]

Nogai placed the capital of his self-ruled region at Isaccea, which is now a little city in Romania.

[Artur_M.]

I completely forgot about this channel's existence, despite having subscribed. Apparently, I neglected to click that damn bell but YouTube decided to send me a notification at last.
It was a very interesting video. I love the extensive bibliography in the description. I was just thinking about writing a comment asking 'what language did Nogai speak?' when you started explaining this exact question. Last but not least, I appreciate the pretty good pronunciation of Jan Długosz.

[harzemsahtekin]

if ı remember correct Rashid al Din said, Mongol commander who defeated Kotan(Kıpchak Khan) was Berke.
That mean Berke was maın actor for Baybars and his people escape to crimea ?

[SiskaRobert]

Amazing video. Carpini and the papal letters sent to Khan was my gateway to this wonderful part of history. I always wondered about the 'nationalities' in the hordes. Could you say that Mongols were basically just a rulling class, with majority of the population being Turkic?

[endo_kun_da]

Nice work defining Nogai from the naming of the Nogai Horde! A question that still remains with me however is if was not the Mongol prince Nogai, who was the horde named after? The entomology of place names and similar proper nouns is always tricky and with limited sources perhaps there is little that can be done to delve further on the matter.

[kaybevang]

I wanna know how Khipchak mercenaries ended up in the Yuan Dynasty Of Kublai

[harzemsahtekin]

Will you mention about Volga-Bulgar rebellion against Mengu Timur ?

[ousaineydiagana]

Great video. I would like to ask you whether the tatars living in Russia and Ukraine are the same as the Mongols. Or the Mongols and the tartars are 2 distinct ethnic?

[HikmaHistory]

It’s fascinating to see how the different Mongol khanates formed their own political identity

[harzemsahtekin]

5:32 There were Grey Horde of Shibanids

[harzemsahtekin]

we know anything about social/military organization of old Kıpchak Khanates ?

[lt]

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