The Mongol Tribes: Did they Exist

Chinggis Khan is well known for breaking down the tribes of Mongolia to form his empire... but a recent trend in scholarship on the Mongol Empire suggests that these "tribes" did not exist in the form we imagine them. In this video I present this theory, and offer a new interpretation of Mongolian society. Part 1: Terminology 5:08 Part 2: New Model for Mongolian Society 12:50 Part 3: Summary 26:21 DONATIONS Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thejackmeister?locale.x=en_US Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jackmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJackmeister/ SOURCES: Atwood, Christopher. “The Administrative Origins of Mongolia’s ‘Tribal’ Vocabulary.” Eurasia: Statum et Legem. 1 no. 4 (2015): 7-43. https://www.academia.edu/18163390/The_Administrative_Origins_of_Mongolia_s_Tribal_Vocabulary Atwood, Christopher. “Historiography and transformation of ethnic identity in the Mongol Empire: the Öng’üt case.” Asian Ethnicity 15 no. 4 (2014): 514-534. Atwood, Christopher. “Mongols, Arabs, Kurds, and Franks: Rashīd al-Dīn’s Comparative Ethnography of Tribal Society.” in Rashīd al-Dīn. Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran. Warburg Institute Colloquia 24 (2013): 223-250. https://www.academia.edu/4831541/Mongols_Arabs_Kurds_and_Franks_Rash% C4%ABd_al_D%C4%ABn_s_Comparative_Ethnography_of_Tribal_Society Atwood, Christopher. “Banner, Otog, Thousand: Appanage Communities as the Basic Unit of Traditional Mongolian Society.” Mongolian Studies 34 (2012): 1-76. https://www.academia.edu/9626389/Banner_Otog_Thousand_Appanage_Communities_as_the_Basic_Unit_of_Traditional_Mongolian_Society Atwood, Christopher. “Six Pre-Chinggisid Genealogies in the Mongol Empire.” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi. Edited by Th. T. Allsen, P.B. Golden, R.K. Kovalev, and A.P. Martinez. 19 (2012): 5-58. Brose, Michael. “Qipchak Networks of Power in Mongol China.” How Mongolia Matters: War, Law, and Society. Edited by Morris Rossabi, 69-86. Boston: Brill, 2017. Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene. “Political Order in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Imperial Incorporation and the Hereditary Divisional System.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3. 26 no. 4 (2016): 633-655. https://www.academia.edu/27308900/Political_Order_in_Pre_Modern_Eurasia_Imperial_Incorporation_and_the_Hereditary_Divisional_System Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene. “Where did the Mongol Empire come from? Medieval Mongol Ideas of People, State, and Empire.” Inner Asia 13 no. 2 (2011): 211-37. https://www.academia.edu/5715162/Where_Did_the_Mongol_Empire_Come_From_Medieval_Mongol_Ideas_of_People_State_and_Empire Liu Yingsheng. “From the Qipčap Steppe to the Court in Daidu: A Study of the History of Toqtoq’s Family in Yuan China.” in Eurasian Influences on Yuan China, edited by Morris Rossabi, 168-177. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013. Pow, Stephen. “Nationes que se Tartaros appellant”: An Exploration of the Historical Problem of the Usage of the Ethnonyms Tatar and Mongol in Medieval Sources.” Golden Horde Review 7 no. 3 (2019): 545-567. Rashiduddin Fazlullah. Jami’ u’t-tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles: A History of the Mongols. Translated by W. M. Thackston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1998. Shurany, Vered. “Tuqtuqa and Hes Descendants: Cross-Regional Mobility and Political Intrigue in the Mongol Yuan Army.” in Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, Intellectuals. Edited by Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, and Francesca Fiaschetti, 120-140. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Sneath, David. The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. MUSIC ATTRIBUTIONS: “Throat singing- Tuvan Chylandyk style,” Giovanni Bortoluzzi / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Throat_singing_-_Tuvan_Chylandyk_style.ogg “Overtone Singing- Tuvan Sygyt,” Giovanni Bortoluzzi / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Overtone_singing_-_Tuvan_Sygyt.ogg “Undertone singing,” Cassa342 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Undertone_singing.ogg The other music is provided by Epidemic Sound. http://www.epidemicsound.com

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