How the Mongols Lost China - Medieval History Animated DOCUMENTARY

The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Mongol History continues with a video explaining how and why thee Mongols lost China and the Yuan dynasty was kicked out.

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[obiwancoolidge]

Death: Who are you?
Khan: I am Temur
Death: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

[ziggytheassassin]

Toghto gives me the same vibe as Flavius Aetius. A competent and loyal leader that was trying to hold things together while hit with disaster after disaster but was betrayed by his own incompetent superiors that feared his popularity and influence.

[baybarshan]

In European schools we don't lern about Asian history, thanks to Kings and Generals we learn it from you guys !

[cursedex]

Man, the always common trend of getting rid of the most adept person for a role even though they are loyal to you, due to paranoia or other people forcing your hand, and are surprised when everything falls apart without them

[Dragons_Armory]

Toghto's de facto regency of the government should really be looked deeper by other historians.
He was thrown into a state that was almost beset by Heaven and nature itself and still managed to wrangle much back in the Yuan hands. He had to almost play a stable, parental figure while his own monarchs are beset by drunkenness and pettiness (and literal short lifes too short to truly rule the people and mend their pains.) And despite literally larger than life forces and endless rebellions (for legitimate grievances) he tried to reform the state so that it could better the condition of the people (his people, for as he saw the Han Chinese as his people too.) Only to have himself wronged by his Emperor, and then killed, dying loyal to the state that killed him because he still believed in it.

Such figure reminds one of tragic figures such as Flavius Stilicho, and (either ironically or perfectly befittingly) many tragic *Confucian Chinese officials who tried to do the best for his dynasty and the people but were Ned Starked in the end.

[manuelpacheco]

This is so high quality that I feel weird not having to pay for this. I sincerely hope teachers are using you guys!!!

[brokenbridge]

It seemed what did in the Yuan dynasty was a perfect storm of events brought about by Kublai Khan's death. And it seemed that Toghto's dismissal and death was what broke the camel's back. Without him the Yuan's fall would happened eventually. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[sbam]

The Mongols' major weakness was that their population was tiny. Even at their height, and despite the West always referring to them as "hordes" their army rarely exceeded 10 Tumens (all fronts combined), and even that required heavily drawing upon non-mongols - like the Tartars and the Naimans etc. - to fill out the ranks. When a conquering administrator is outnumbered by the locals by more than 1, 000 to one, ejection and/or reverse assimilation is pretty inevitable. This happened everywhere. The Ilkhanate became Islamized, the Golden Hordre were gradually replaced by the Rus warlords they themselves had raised up to administer/collect tribute for them etc.

[lerneanlion]

Upon the mention of the Ming dynasty, it made me realized this one thing. Why would the members of the Tiandihui wanted to revive the Ming dynasty so much and did not go with the general trend of replacing one dynasty with their own leader's dynasty? What made the Ming dynasty so special to them and not those like of the Tang and Song dynasties despite that they were of Han origins as well. Heck, the Tang's regime was even considered as the Golden Age of China by many people.

[loganbagley]

I always thought that if they made an Assassins Creed game set in China, they should set it during the fall of the Yuan and rise of the Ming Dynasties.

[waynedawson]

Yuan dynasty be using that Quantitative easing.😄

[ujovmp]

10:59 That's not the Mongolian writing system at the time. This is the original Mongolian writing system: ‎ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
What you showed there is using the Cyrillic alphabet to spell Mongolian language, which was implemented by the Soviet Union in 20th century.

[thechosenone]

Togho reminds me of Stilicho who tried to save Rome but was betrayed and assassinated by his emperor. In both the cases the Empire ended after them. Stilicho's death led to the Sack of Rome and Togho's death led to the fall of the Yuan Dynasty.

[MegaTang]

Toghto gets to join the "Loyal component general gets stabbed in the back by the very state he is trying to save" club with Sthilico and Surena.

[dr.woozie]

10:59 that’s not the traditional Mongolian script. That’s the Cyrillic based script enforced by the USSR.

[timothysilviajr]

Amazing video and I love the Mongol era and Chinese history. All those of factors played a role in overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty but the ecological and economic ones could have been adapted had the central leadership were competent considering many other areas suffered the same issues but managed to ease onward. Traditional Mongolian script is a lot harder to represent so I don't blame you for choosing the easier showing of the language with the Cyrillic script. My major question is why is southern China in pink with the Southern Song? It was defeated in 1279 and incorporated into the Yuan Dynasty beyond that the video was a great representation of the overthrow of the Yuan.

[waynedawson]

Toghto reminds me of Stilicho who was also killed by a jealous emperor.

[ejei]

Can we have more videos on Tang Taizong, Tang Xuanzong, Yongle Emperor, as well as Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperor. All these history videos are by far the most sophisticated and intriguing on youtube!

[chichan]

No history class ever talked about how climate changes have affected the course of history, or geography determined the fate of nations. Even in the modern era with so much technology, we are still very much at the mercy of nature. Just because people in the developed world don't think they are one loss harvest away from starvation, doesn't mean it cannot happen anymore.

[arthurbarreto]

Great content, but shouldn’t the Mongolian language be represented by the Mongolian script, considering the Cyrillic Alphabet was only adopted much later by the Mongolian People’s Republic?