Person1186 – 1241
Ögedei Khan
Also called: Ögödei
Third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan, who destroyed the Jin, walled Karakorum and sent armies against Goryeo and Europe
Where they went
3 related events
- 1
Genghis Khan invaded the Jurchen Jin and overran northern China; Ögedei Khan, allied with the Southern Song, destroyed the Jin in 1234.
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Genghis Khan’s third son Ögedei became Great Khan and built the capital at Karakorum. A network of relay stations (yam) tied the vast empire together.
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Genghis Khan’s grandson Batu destroyed Volga Bulgaria and the Rus principalities and struck as far as Poland and Hungary. On the death of Ögedei he withdrew and founded the Golden Horde.
People who appear alongside
- Genghis Khan1162 – 1227
Founder of the Mongol Empire, born Temüjin, proclaimed Genghis Khan at the kurultai of 1206; he attacked Western Xia, Jin and Khwarazm
- Batu Khan1207 – 1255
Grandson of Genghis Khan who led the European campaign of 1236–1242 and founded the Golden Horde with its capital at Sarai on the Volga
- Subutai1175 – 1248
General of Genghis Khan and Ögedei, who with Jebe defeated the Rus at the Kalka and was the operational commander of Batu’s European campaign
Themes this person appears in
- Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500
The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon
- The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294
From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary