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@@yijielu3272 that is a good question. If there is a known portrait of a relative, we try to find something similar. Otherwise, just a feeling "oh, this guy seems like a brave warrior".
So you hearted my comment about the ottoman-venetian wars but you didn't answer my question Are you planning on covering those conflicts in dedicated videos in the future or nah? Would be awesome if you could cover that as there's basically nothing about it on TH-cam
Its crazy to think that as the Mamelukes and Mongols were facing off in Syria, the Samurai were holding off the Mongols on Kyushu, European Knights were fighting the Mongols in Hungary, Rajput and Turkic warriors were facing off against the Mongols in Punjab, and the Dai Viet were ambushing Mongol invasions outside of Hanoi.
I'm so happy you guys are covering this. Baybars is one of the most underrated people in history. He was one of the most capable people I've ever read about.
Well said. Without the immense energy and atenttion of Baybars and his personal efforts (we only touched it slightly here) it is tough to imagine the Mamluks having such success again and again. A lesser leader would have, for instance, been overwhelmed and surrounded quickly during the Elbistan campaign.
@@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory There was the whole shadow war between Baybars and Abagha, where Baybars used spies to irk Abagaha. There was constant training for troops, etc. Maybe K&G will make a video about him one day. I'd glady help.
@Bibars Showgan Nope he was a Kipchak Cuman Terk born in modern day Crimea He is from the Balkans he was sold into slavery eventually made his way into Egypt and purchased by Saladin‘s family
Georgia is quite an amazing country. In Tbilisi there are mosques, churches, and a synagogue beside each other right in the beautiful heart of the capital.
@@bilalbadar1438 Timur started from poverty as a petty bandit and small time raider, then he worked up on becoming a Warlord. He didn't have royal blood.
Turkic Baybars and Sultan Kutuz were too good tacticians and knew mongol tactics too well. In addition to that Baybars had a strong will to take personal revenge for his slaughtered family. About Baybars there should be a movie, read his biography, it's unbelievable. His Parents and sister were burned by Mongols in front of his 5 year old eyes in Anatolia, kept as a slave and sold in Cairo. There he became a slave soldier, where he later took over the whole state and revenge from the Mongols while he became the first one who defeated them, what he repeated in 6 further battles. He defeated also the Cruisaders in the same time, who should never come back after that. Later he was such a cool person, that he did let announce himself as dead and spent his very last years anonymous in his home town in Anatolia where he was captured as a child, as a civilian. Favourite historical figure !
You need to take in mind that Baybars never faced the mongols in the their prime. Do you think the mamlukes/baybars would have still been standing if the original mongols attacked? I mean commanders like Genghis Khan and Sukuthai? Sukuthai I believe is looked as one of the best generals ever lived and had a big part of why Mongols managed to conquer half the world. Mongols weakness was for example that they had to run home if a khan died and such. I believe sukuthai was very deep into europe and very successful but had to go home because he got called home.
Why do you ( Anatolian Turks ) like to insert yourself in anything related to other Turkic and steppe ethnic groups? Baybars had nothing to do with Anatolia, he was from the eastern Iranian plateau and was raised in Egypt.
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Fun fact: Something similar happened to a man named Wilmer McClean during the American civil war, this man owned the land on which the first battle of the war was fought on, the Battle of Bull Run. Annoyed by this, he sold the land and moved south to escape the war and bought land in which the last battle of the war, the battle of Appomattox Court House, was fought
As an Egyptian, I think the Mamluks were the best dynasty to rule Egypt. They defeated the Mongols and Crusaders and built many great things and Egypt was the center of the Islamic world.
@@cuzimmoody6470 Yea he want new ottoman empire. Because he described themselves as Turks. Muhammad Ali's family was a Turkish family settled from Anatolia to the Balkans. He and his children also stated that they were Turkish in the statements he made to the European press.
Berke soon became a devout Muslim. His conversion resulted in the Blue Horde becoming primarily Muslim, although there were still animists and Buddhists among them. Berke was angered by Hulagu's destruction of Baghdad (as a Muslim) and was determined to deal with Hulagu Khan, who had murdered the Caliph Al-Musta'sim, and whose territorial ambitions in Syria and Egypt threatened Berke's fellow Muslims. Muslim historian Rashid-al-Din Hamadani quoted Berke Khan as telling his Mongols and Muslim subjects, in protest at the attack on Baghdad: "He (Hulagu) has sacked all the cities of the Muslims, and has brought about the death of the Caliph. With the help of God I will call him to account for so much innocent blood." (see The Mongol Warlords, quoting Rashid al-Din's record of Berke Khan's pronouncement; this quote is also found in The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War) Before his succession, he also complained to Batu "We helped Möngke to enthrone. But he forgot who the enemy is or friend is. Now, he is starving the lands of our friend Caliph. It is abject". It is notable that Berke Khan kept his promise, allying himself with the Mamluks, (Berke sought an alliance with the Mamluk sultan Baibars against Hulagu) and when Hulagu returned to his lands in 1262, after the succession was finally settled with Kublai as the last Great Khan, and massed his armies to avenge Ain Jalut and attack the Mamluks, Berke Khan initiated a series of raids in force which drew Hulagu north to meet him. This was the first open conflict between Mongols, and signalled the end of the unified empire.
While religion was a big part of the conflict, Berke was the son of Jochi, Hulagu, Mongke and Khublai the sons of Tolui. Hulagu had purged all Jochids and Ogedaids, from his army, so it's not as though this was solely over religion, its root goes back to the rivalry between Genghis Khan's sons.
Also because hulagu was hogging the wealthy southern lands of persia whilst the chagatai and golden hordes were stuck with large empty steppe and a few cities In fairness to the chagatai they did have there shot at india and if they had succeeded in conquering the delhi sultanate they too would have become as rich or even richer than hulagu Chagatai khanate would have ruled over the entire northern region of india with delhi as its capital It wouldn't be the first time turkic nomads did that since qutubiddin Aibak founder of the delhi sultanate and the first generation mamluk conquered the entire northern india
What helped to the alliance between Golden Horde and Mamluks is that most of Mamluks and Beibars himself were Kipchalks from the Golden Horde steppes. Supposedly, Beibars had ties with Golden Horde rulers through his relatives still living in Golden Horde. He himself was from the Ural Delta area near Golden Horde's capital Saraichik.
@Rex Francorum chagtai turks did not conquered delhi son of timurs conquered it who were from barlas mongol tribe and also they were invited by indian muslim nobles to invade india and remove ibrahim khan lodhi
@@5cats267 Yes and those levant and egypt who founded the mamluk state..by the way mamluk is arabic word mean "slave" ..we should thank them cuz they the one who bought qutuz and babiras from the trade market and release them from the salavry. ..thise people who reach them to the throne and become rulers of mamluk sultab..without the arabs they are nothing...also the army mamluk were mostly arabs..and rulers of mamluk were mostly circrassion and khoraizem and less turk..qutuz was khoraizem and babiars caussican
@Gladius pax I don't think religion had anything to do with it. Throughout history countries has always exploited their rival's weaknesses. Even Muslims did it to other Muslims. Christians did it to other Christians. It's just politics tbh. Just proves that Berke knew politics well. And the whole burning of Baghdad thingy was just a casus belli. EDIT: Also Berke actually supported Ariq Boke in the Toluid civil war while the Ilkhanate supported Kublai. So Berke had every reason to fight the Ilkhanate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluid_Civil_War
@Gladius pax They typically incorporated many skilled workers and works of knowledge into their realms afterwards... it's not like they were causing destruction for no reason...
Jevin Liu Well they did exterminated 40% of world population not including the Black Death which was spread by mongols when they launched dead bodies with catapults as chemical weapons. Mongol invasion was a world disaster.
Great Turkic leader and Turkic state. They are Kipchak and Oghuz. The name of their state is the "Turkish state" ed-Devletü't-Türkiyye (Arabic: الدولة التركية) and Devletü'l-Etrâk (Arabic: دولة الاتراك)
Baibars the Great Panther🇹🇷🇰🇿🇪🇬 The term 'Mamluk Sultanate' is a modern historiographical term.[9] Arabic sources for the period of the Bahri, Mamluks refer to the dynasty as the State of the Turks (Arabic: دولة الاتراك, Dawlat al-Atrāk; دولة الترك, Dawlat al-Turk) or State of Turkey (الدولة التركية, al-Dawla al-Turkiyya).[16][17][9]
Jacob Hartman Pretty much. Most of the casualties were sustained during the “rout” after an army’s formation had shattered and were in full retreat. That’s why battles where one side wins but doesn’t rout the enemy are often indecisive.
Great Turkic leader and Turkic state. They are Kipchak and Oghuz. The name of their state is the "Turkish state" ed-Devletü't-Türkiyye (Arabic: الدولة التركية) and Devletü'l-Etrâk (Arabic: دولة الاتراك)
I think Georgia deserves a video or two on this great documentary channel, for its Golden Age or just because of how such a small country outlived greatest empires and preserved its culture, unique language, religion and traditions.
Baybars im surprised how i never heard of him such an intelligent and capable ruler definitely one of the best rulers from what i have seen in your videos.
@Zlatan the mamlukes decisively defeated the mongols in several battles. (like in the battles of Marj al-Saffar 1303, ain jalut, 2nd homs, elbistan ect). in some, the mamlukes were greatly outnumbered by the mongols and still beat them. like in the legendary battle of marj al saffar. mongol rule was pushed back and started to significantly decline. such repetitive defeats can't be explained just by saying "mongols were devided" , especially given that the mongols had still much bigger resources and numbers than the mamlukes. you're just a jealous loser who don't wanna admit the glory the Muslim believers.
Excellent video as usual, just wish there was more about Berke Khan(the first muslim mongol)'s alliance with the Mamluks and his beef with Hulagu over the sack of Baghdad. Still excellent nonetheless
There is debate over how much of an alliance this actually was. Our sources for that come from the Mamluks themselves: had Temur not destroyed the Golden Horde's archives, we wonder how they might have depicted it. It's been suggested that they actually saw it as the Mamluks actually having submitted to the Jochids. Further, there doesn't seem to have been any tangible cooperation between Mamluk or Golden Horde armies. The most important consequences was keeping open Mamluk access to the slave markets of the Qipchaq steppe, and helped keep the Ilkhanate and Golden Horde from coming to peace terms more often. It seems Berke's religion may not have been as important a factor as often portrayed. Baghdad fell in 1258, but Berke did not go to war with Hulegu until the end of 1262. If he was upset about the sack of Baghdad, it was not an immediate casus belli, though it certainly may have contributed to Berke's distaste for his cousin. Hulegu's murder of Jochid princes, and clashing territorial claims over what is now modern Azerbaijan, with the vacuum in the authority of the Great Khan due to the war between Ariq Boke and Kublai, were likely the more direct factors leading to an outbreak of hostilities.
Imam ibn taymiah converted berke khan and golden horde into islam Second point the mamlukes were also consisted of turkic muslims cousins of mongols probably that's how they were able to convert to Islam easily I mean the golden horde
Abdullah Shah Syrians are arabs now, what you call aramaic and arabic are not races bit ethnic groups, you mix the two and that’s wrong. They belong to the semitic race with the J haplogroup. Egyptions are mostly semitic with lesser african genes. They are even called the uncles of ismaelites arabs. Since the wife of abraham was egyption. That makes the difference between them and jews actually. Yet they all semitic people. and all speak Arabic as native language which makes them arabs. If i have direct descendant from genkhis khan, it doesn’t mean I’m mongol now. I’m racially, culturally and languistically arab. Like egyptions, syrians. And iraqis Also many arabian tribes went to live With all these people and mixed with them. So we’re talking jewish, aramiaic egyptions arab mix, that makes arabs since arab is the dominant ethbic group and arabic is the main language. Some people have discontent with that. Yet it doesn’t change this fact.
Abdullah Shah Never said that speaking arabic only makes you arabic The rest if your reply is just wrong. Genetics, culture, language, religion, even geopolitics and government systems. Social movements...all is direct impact of arab islamic conquests and migrations, your name is abdullah yet i agree that it doesn’t make you arab for sure. Guess what ? I’m berber
The Mamluks did not owe their victory over the Mongols to their own power alone. Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz quotes from a letter from Hülegü to King Ludwig IX. from France. In it the Mongol wrote that the grazing grounds in Syria were exhausted and that the troops could no longer be supplied. Last but not least, it was the ecological conditions of Syria and Palestine that set the limits of the Mongol towers. The small-scale landscapes of the Levant were simply too barren for their huge herds.
@@cuzimmoody6470 Not it actually means slave. Khadim/Khadam means servent. However, in the context and relation to Allah, Abd actually means Worshipper so Abd Allah means 'Worshipper of Allah'
I dunno why people bring genetics into this. Genetics don’t determine your choices, culture religion, or political affiliation. White doesn’t mean christian, black doesn’t mean culturally African and brown...well it doesn’t mean muslim or arab either.
@@lastword8783 there certainly is thought that it was just propaganda: however, it was convincing enough that some top figures of the Mamluk (i.e governors in Syrian cities) believed. There was a bit more to it as well, that the Mamluk soldiers had also violated Muslim women during the raid, which is a rather believable thing for an army in any period. It was worth the chance to undermine the Mamluk defence from Ghazan's point of view either way. There was a Mamluk jurist in Damascus who did call out Ghazan for his hypocrisy when he took the city, since I'm sure his soldiers weren't much better.
@@IronWarrior86 He was just ruling over persians so nothing special. Now persians are avenging a millenium old Turkic/Mongol rule by assimilating Turks living in Iran
The battles were amazing as always, but this was especially interesting right at the end to me. The shifting lines of territories as time ticks along is like seeing it flow, like one big story made up of countless smaller ones. I love this.
One of the most fascinating aspects of all the videos on this channel, to me, is that records of this detail still exist nearly 800 years later for this specifically and much, much longer for some. I mean, I know the Greeks were keeping records 2000+ years ago and even to some extent, the Sumerians like 6000 years ago, but it is still amazing to me. It shows the need to keep records of things. It's crazy that we know such level of detail to know which flank did what, at what time of day things happened, when who retreated, number of casualties, seemingly every detail of the belligerents, and so on... But of all the amazing things we know about the past, imagine the things we don't know - from great civilizations that were conquered and nearly erased by the victors, minor civilizations that fell into disrepair/disrepute/etc, ones that didn't keep good record or records at all, ones from before keeping records was in fashion, etc. It boggles the mind. Also, I guess this is why this part of the world (Anatolia/Asian Minor) is so interesting to me - it was greatly influenced by and sandwiched between several major world powers - Europe/Christianity, the Arab world/Islam, Mongols who converted to Islam but also fought alongside European Christians, etc. A melting pot of the ancient world. And one final note, it's crazy how big the Aral Sea used to be and how small it is now. I remember reading about it's shrinkage when I was a kid.
I am turkman turk from elbistan, in elbistan poeple still talk about and have evidences of 2 big wars that ocured on the plain. One is the war between roman army and persia (thou turks were not at anatolia but many castels of rome) and this war memluk mongol war. And many stories of timur s elephants.
not many reliable sources about what actually happenned. You might like it but it is hard to present a battle that is only in oral history with little archeaological evidence
It's hard to find which one is right. Some people tell this story a bit different. So, I don't know what happened back then. Is it low casualties for both side? How Muslim survive that battle facing quraisy in front of them, and Jewish behind them?
Fun fact those Mamluk have Mongol ancestry in their DNA. They were taken as a slave who will have to serve later as a warrior and they did, not as a soldier but as a King!!
You mean the Illkhanates. Because the only guy to invade the Mongol heartlands AKA its powerbase was Yongle. EDIT: Not trying take anything away from Baibars though. The guy was a beast.
Yeah, for a century or two, they were the strongest empire of the region, checking the Ottomans, Mongols, various Iranian empires, Crusaders and others.
i love this channell ... not only it teach us so much about the history of diffirent regions ... but it also give us a chance to clash our thoughts and correct our wrong knowledge in comments ... just because to answer someone that is saying something you think as wrong or correct yourself .. you go to internet to find the correct answer and learn more about the thinks you didnt even know or thouht as correct/incorrect .. its not only giving people a single amount of knowledge but it also gives an oppurtinity to people to search and learn ..how amazing can a history channel be ... i appreciate your hard work K&G .. keep up the good work :)
Great job man, thanks for this remarkable video! Waiting your next video about Chagatay ulus and Timurids. P/S. We honour and respect our Kipchak ancestor Baybars in Kazakhstan. Kazakh government helps to restore his mosque in Cairo.
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan Not just armenians. Georgian king supported mongols with his army on syrian campiangs. And crusader kingdoms in levant started to harass mamluks when mongol army approaching to levant.
The Battle of Marj al-Saffar (or Marj al-Suffar), also known as the Battle of Shaqhab, took place on April 20 through April 22, 1303 between the Mamluks and the Mongols and their Armenian allies near Kiswe, Syria, just south of Damascus. The battle has been influential in both Islamic history and contemporary time because of the controversial jihad against other Muslims and Ramadan related fatwas issued by Ibn Taymiyyah, who himself joined the battle.[7] The battle, a disastrous defeat for the Mongols, put an end to Mongol invasions of the Levant. This battle was the final test when mongol were convinced that they would never be able to conquer Egypt as they brought their entire force and allies numbering about 100000 strong.
Mamluks: Finally we drive the Mongols away... A monk: After facing the Mongol invasion, nobody could've dreamed that a serious peril could ever rise from the east again. However, Timur-- Mamluks: Oh, come on! Medieval 2 Total War in a nutshell when you're playing as an eastern Muslim faction.
Berke Khan had become a Muslim and was devastated by the sack of Baghdad by Hulugu Khan.Berke Khan launched attacks on Hulugu and stuck an alliance with the Mamluks.
@@Error111 Khaled Ibn Al-Walid is the greatest Muslim warrior in history. Even the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, called him the unleashed sword of God. I mean, the Turks were not Muslims after my brother. Forget about racism and let your loyalty be to Islam only, not to nationalism or race.
Mamluks are also popular. Because they were the only state that defeated and stopped the Mongols, magnificently objective western sources call the Mamluks an Egyptian (!) state, similar to the Pechenegs, the Avars, even though the Mamluk sources generally record the name of their state as "ed-Devletü't-Türkiyye" (Turkish State). Good video man.
@@Judge_Magister You again? The Mamluks collapsed in 1517 after the Ottoman invasion. Napoleon invaded almost 300 years later, and was defeated and crushed by the Egyptians. You are just salty that the chad Mamlukes made your Crusader states raise the white flag like you always do.
@@Judge_Magister You are currently either drunk or reading your own made-up history. It is hilarious that you call me an alternate history reader while you yourself have zero knowledge of history. Popular Egyptian uprisings and British support were the reason why baguettes failed in Egypt. Also, the Ottoman Empire survived for 100 more years after the Napoleonic Wars. Doesn't sound like a collapse, more like stagnation and slow painful decline like Rome.
@@abdullahowaisqureshi8541 Napolean wasnt "crushed" like u said lmao Napolean humilliated the whole of egypt and ottoman empire with a small army making the mamluks run for their lifes. Go check the battle of pyramids
@the great han un han the great han un han Bedoins Najdis of Saudi Zionist Arabia Are Wahabis... Who created by british in last century. We Sunnis are Hunbali Shafais Malikis and Hanafis
@Kings and General you make always good,proffesional and interesting videos and as a Bulgarian ,I appriciate a lot that you make whole serie about us.Nobody (outside ourselves) did that before. Somehow the Balkans are forgetten for the Western world - although we can show a lot to the world. Thank you again. Just I want to make small corrrection: Bulgaria exists till 1396 and in the video is illustrated as Byzantine Empire which is not the case. Only for few years we were Vassals of the Mongols(Golden Horde - so maybe as Mongols) ,but for sure cannot be illustrated as Byzantine Empire :). Thank you anyway again for the great Videos.I always watch them -each Video till now.
indeed learning more about bulgaria was indeed a good deed ... you learn really much about history in this channel (even about the thinks you think you already know ) .. its clearly my best channel :)
Bilge Turkkan No they used the title Emir because the official language of the sultanate was Arabic. The majority of the Mamluks were born in Egypt and their descendants were called “Awlad el nas”, these were the best of the Mamluks like AlNasir Muhammed. Those who were not, were brought from a very young age. These two spoke Arabic as first language and Persian words were heavily used as well. However, there were Mamluks who were recruited from old age like those who came from the Mongol controlled area like Kibugha. These people initially spoke little to no Arabic but were later Egyptianized, though the majority of the population hated them and often removed them from power like what happened between Baibars Al Jashnakir and an-nasir Muhammed whom his rule was regarded as golden age of enlightenment and Mamluk architecture masterpieces
The Egyptians had a large population and could have mobilized major infantry armies, but they opted for cavalry only. Just like the Mongols. The tactical lesson that I learned from this video is to never ever have a slower army than your enemy if he is mounted or mechanized. Going up against the Mongols with large infantry units is almost like not having an army at all.
@@SantomPh exactly. And also let me revise my statement. The Vietnamese obviously nibbled and gradually destroyed Mongols invaders by skillfully employing their infantry as skirmishers. But as you said, that does not work out in open plains or in the desert.
"Among my offspring, many emperors will come into existence after this. If my grandees and warriors who serve them do not maintain the yasaq strictly, the empire will become shaky and end. They will wish they had Chinggis Khan, but they will not have him." -Chinggis Khan, as recorded in Jamiat al-Tawarikh, Rashid al-Din.
Burke khan of Golden Horde was the unsung hero in all this. His attacks on ilkhanate kept Mongols from attacking the rest of Mamlukes holdings, sparing cities like Makkah and Medina. Mongols wanted to subject the holiest cities in Islam to the same treatment that they gave to Baghdad. However, Berke vising Bukhara converted to Islam. From that point onward, Berke become a sworn enemy of ilkhanate.
@@Ali-sh6kh Same thing can be said about many different religions where something similar happened. Animism is a weak religion compared to religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. The Mongols today are primarily Buddhists, so much for Allah keeping his flock.
@@chucktowne i think he means the mongols who settle in Mesopotamian and all Ilkhante and the golden horde and even Chagatai Khanate domain, the mongol of actual Mongolia were under the fourth mongol part the yuen dynasty, who were affected more by the Chinese culture.
@তৈমুর লং My whole point is that Islam isn't the only religion to overtake the Mongols or any other religions. Christianity overthrew almost every religion in Europe and the Americas, the same thing happened in Asia and Africa with different religions. So its not just Islam.
Mamaluks won because mongols were far from their strong base in Mongolia and China. While Mamaluks were near their hom in Cairo, easy supplies and men power when you are closer to your home base
Hulagu Khan's Ikhanate was in Persia not China Kublai Khan had Khan Baliq in China, the real reason for the Mongol defeat is because Hulagu Withdrew the bulk of his forces to Persia in Tabriz, soon after the Mongol Muslim Khan Berke waged a war against him, this engaged the Bulk of his forces so the Battle between Mongols and Mamleukes was even both having 20,000 Men each, Baibars however smashed the Mongols killed Hulagu Khan's best man Kitbuqa as well as the Majority of their forces.
15:45 When the Shogun 1 Total War Mongol soundtrack started playing, I damn near jumped out of my seat in excitement. The throat Singing that begins at 16:15 was always my favorite part, I'm surprised K&G waited this long in the series to use it and use it when the Mongols are losing, cause that's boss winning music right there.
I hate how you always undermine the victories of the mamluks by claiming they had bigger numbers Or by claiming that the Mongol leader had little experience Please stop being biased
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How do you choose the portraits for leaders without pics?
@@yijielu3272 that is a good question. If there is a known portrait of a relative, we try to find something similar. Otherwise, just a feeling "oh, this guy seems like a brave warrior".
Mongol invasions season 2 ?
So you hearted my comment about the ottoman-venetian wars but you didn't answer my question
Are you planning on covering those conflicts in dedicated videos in the future or nah?
Would be awesome if you could cover that as there's basically nothing about it on TH-cam
@@loods2215 yep, some of them
Its crazy to think that as the Mamelukes and Mongols were facing off in Syria, the Samurai were holding off the Mongols on Kyushu, European Knights were fighting the Mongols in Hungary, Rajput and Turkic warriors were facing off against the Mongols in Punjab, and the Dai Viet were ambushing Mongol invasions outside of Hanoi.
Basicly the Great Britain but on horsies.
Age of empires 2 random skirmish be like:
there was no "knights" in hungary in the first invasion
@@theentertainmentnation4694 Hungary had knights decades before the first Mongol invasion.
@@joshg8053 hungary didnt had heavy cavalry like the HRE or france stop the cap
I'm so happy you guys are covering this.
Baybars is one of the most underrated people in history. He was one of the most capable people I've ever read about.
Well said. Without the immense energy and atenttion of Baybars and his personal efforts (we only touched it slightly here) it is tough to imagine the Mamluks having such success again and again. A lesser leader would have, for instance, been overwhelmed and surrounded quickly during the Elbistan campaign.
@@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory There was the whole shadow war between Baybars and Abagha, where Baybars used spies to irk Abagaha. There was constant training for troops, etc. Maybe K&G will make a video about him one day. I'd glady help.
Beybars was a slave that was sold by Mongols in 1241 to Egypt and who killed his boss. Even dog dont kill his boss.
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Looks as if you have some unresolved personal issues.
Baybars was an underrated warrior. He deserves much more credit
Well he was a turk not an Arab
@@sidp5381 what does that has to do with anything?
@@sidp5381 what does it have to do with it😂? He was a muslim and that's all it needs as an identification
@Bibars Showgan Nope he was a Kipchak Cuman Terk born in modern day Crimea He is from the Balkans he was sold into slavery eventually made his way into Egypt and purchased by Saladin‘s family
@@shadowblaze5558 because sadly a lot of individuals like to confuse Islam and Arabs even though they make an insignificant number of the population
Georgian and Arminian Christians fighting the Muslim Mamluks with the Mongols for a century. Then the Mongols converted to Islam.
Georgians : 😮
Imam Ibn Tayymiah's fatwas ended the Mongol invasion of the Mamluk realm (Battle of Marj al Saffar) and changed the course of Islamic history.
Subhan allah
Georgia is quite an amazing country. In Tbilisi there are mosques, churches, and a synagogue beside each other right in the beautiful heart of the capital.
@@abdever2140 horseshit! Only one person saved muslims from mongols! Berkh khan of the golden horde who was muslim mongol king!
@Abudajana Ansari why are u insulting person who die centuries ago what possibly he did to make u say that
After the Mongol series is over, will you do a series on Timur who was basically a highly successful Mount and Blade protagonist.
There will be videos on Temur, perhaps sooner than one might think...
@@TheJackmeisterMongolHistory I can't wait.
Well they already did a Battle of Ankara video, but I guess more detailed videos on his reign are in the works
I'm on my second playthrough of Mount and Blade and I know quite a bit about Timur but I don't quite get this comment. Care to explain?
@@bilalbadar1438 Timur started from poverty as a petty bandit and small time raider, then he worked up on becoming a Warlord. He didn't have royal blood.
Turkic Baybars and Sultan Kutuz were too good tacticians and knew mongol tactics too well. In addition to that Baybars had a strong will to take personal revenge for his slaughtered family. About Baybars there should be a movie, read his biography, it's unbelievable. His Parents and sister were burned by Mongols in front of his 5 year old eyes in Anatolia, kept as a slave and sold in Cairo. There he became a slave soldier, where he later took over the whole state and revenge from the Mongols while he became the first one who defeated them, what he repeated in 6 further battles. He defeated also the Cruisaders in the same time, who should never come back after that. Later he was such a cool person, that he did let announce himself as dead and spent his very last years anonymous in his home town in Anatolia where he was captured as a child, as a civilian. Favourite historical figure !
baybairs was a kipchak turk not a oghuz Turk. He was from the steppes of Eurasia
You need to take in mind that Baybars never faced the mongols in the their prime. Do you think the mamlukes/baybars would have still been standing if the original mongols attacked? I mean commanders like Genghis Khan and Sukuthai? Sukuthai I believe is looked as one of the best generals ever lived and had a big part of why Mongols managed to conquer half the world. Mongols weakness was for example that they had to run home if a khan died and such. I believe sukuthai was very deep into europe and very successful but had to go home because he got called home.
Why do you ( Anatolian Turks ) like to insert yourself in anything related to other Turkic and steppe ethnic groups? Baybars had nothing to do with Anatolia, he was from the eastern Iranian plateau and was raised in Egypt.
yas ug bruh all the central Asian Turks be annoyed asf cos of these wannabe Turks
@@ProfessorOFanthropology979 still a Turk
Who else smiled when they heard the name of Khalid bin Al-Waled at 4:43
אהרון אברמוב me to aym roma gypsy turkhis iranians mamluk of ghaznavids iran korasan and delhy sultanat from scityians saka kurgans turkhis iranians and uyghur kazak saka family s
Turk > other world people
i did and when i saw your comment i smiled again
@John doe He was a rapist Said the crusader !
Me too! My fav general of all time! Khalid
Mongols and Mamluks: fight near Homs
Homs population: oh sh*t, here we go again
I don't see it fair that the best comment in the comments section gets so little likes 😂😂😁😂
ARSamogin That’s the city where Khalid ibn al Walid is buried
Fun fact: Something similar happened to a man named Wilmer McClean during the American civil war, this man owned the land on which the first battle of the war was fought on, the Battle of Bull Run. Annoyed by this, he sold the land and moved south to escape the war and bought land in which the last battle of the war, the battle of Appomattox Court House, was fought
'Wife, bring me my telescope and lawn chair... no, not the good one!'
Haha I know right ? The look on his face must have been priceless
As an Egyptian, I think the Mamluks were the best dynasty to rule Egypt. They defeated the Mongols and Crusaders and built many great things and Egypt was the center of the Islamic world.
Bahri State
Now it's cow dung
Yea. Give thanks to the Turks!
Tulunids, Ikhshidids, Mamluks, Ottomans, Khedivate of Egypt are Turkic states
@@cuzimmoody6470 Muhammed Ali was Balkanian Turkish-Albanian. But they described themselves as Turks.
@@cuzimmoody6470 Yea he want new ottoman empire. Because he described themselves as Turks. Muhammad Ali's family was a Turkish family settled from Anatolia to the Balkans. He and his children also stated that they were Turkish in the statements he made to the European press.
The sun won't come up Timurrow.
A red sun rises. Many envoys have been killed this night.
Appreciate it =)
Do you guys know that Timur means Iron in Mongolian ~
@@mongolianepicmusics3169 No Timur actually means "man with fat ass"
@Gladius Pax mam-luq. From ma'm
Berke soon became a devout Muslim. His conversion resulted in the Blue Horde becoming primarily Muslim, although there were still animists and Buddhists among them. Berke was angered by Hulagu's destruction of Baghdad (as a Muslim) and was determined to deal with Hulagu Khan, who had murdered the Caliph Al-Musta'sim, and whose territorial ambitions in Syria and Egypt threatened Berke's fellow Muslims.
Muslim historian Rashid-al-Din Hamadani quoted Berke Khan as telling his Mongols and Muslim subjects, in protest at the attack on Baghdad:
"He (Hulagu) has sacked all the cities of the Muslims, and has brought about the death of the Caliph. With the help of God I will call him to account for so much innocent blood." (see The Mongol Warlords, quoting Rashid al-Din's record of Berke Khan's pronouncement; this quote is also found in The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War)
Before his succession, he also complained to Batu "We helped Möngke to enthrone. But he forgot who the enemy is or friend is. Now, he is starving the lands of our friend Caliph. It is abject". It is notable that Berke Khan kept his promise, allying himself with the Mamluks, (Berke sought an alliance with the Mamluk sultan Baibars against Hulagu) and when Hulagu returned to his lands in 1262, after the succession was finally settled with Kublai as the last Great Khan, and massed his armies to avenge Ain Jalut and attack the Mamluks, Berke Khan initiated a series of raids in force which drew Hulagu north to meet him. This was the first open conflict between Mongols, and signalled the end of the unified empire.
While religion was a big part of the conflict, Berke was the son of Jochi, Hulagu, Mongke and Khublai the sons of Tolui. Hulagu had purged all Jochids and Ogedaids, from his army, so it's not as though this was solely over religion, its root goes back to the rivalry between Genghis Khan's sons.
Also because hulagu was hogging the wealthy southern lands of persia whilst the chagatai and golden hordes were stuck with large empty steppe and a few cities
In fairness to the chagatai they did have there shot at india and if they had succeeded in conquering the delhi sultanate they too would have become as rich or even richer than hulagu
Chagatai khanate would have ruled over the entire northern region of india with delhi as its capital
It wouldn't be the first time turkic nomads did that since qutubiddin Aibak founder of the delhi sultanate and the first generation mamluk conquered the entire northern india
What helped to the alliance between Golden Horde and Mamluks is that most of Mamluks and Beibars himself were Kipchalks from the Golden Horde steppes. Supposedly, Beibars had ties with Golden Horde rulers through his relatives still living in Golden Horde. He himself was from the Ural Delta area near Golden Horde's capital Saraichik.
@Rex Francorum chagtai turks did not conquered delhi son of timurs conquered it who were from barlas mongol tribe and also they were invited by indian muslim nobles to invade india and remove ibrahim khan lodhi
@Rex Francorum actually babur was culturally persianified as most of central asians were
It's amazing how long the Mongols persisted in the Levant despite their losses at the edges of Palestine and Egypt.
@@5cats267 Yes, but the Mongols would continue to raid into that region prior to the Ilkhanate's collapse.
@@5cats267
Yes and those levant and egypt who founded the mamluk state..by the way mamluk is arabic word mean "slave" ..we should thank them cuz they the one who bought qutuz and babiras from the trade market and release them from the salavry. ..thise people who reach them to the throne and become rulers of mamluk sultab..without the arabs they are nothing...also the army mamluk were mostly arabs..and rulers of mamluk were mostly circrassion and khoraizem and less turk..qutuz was khoraizem and babiars caussican
@Manny Pardo You might say they have..... thick skin
Modern historians do not ignore that
Slaves could become emperors like baibars and altutmish not like Christianity wher they died as slaves
Excellent as usual guys. Thanx!
May Allah reward Our Kipchak sultan Beybaris, his work done for entire ummah of Islam 🇰🇿♥️🇪🇬
And Allah bless Berke khan also who took up arms against his own blood
Hahahaha.. Allah was fucked by hulagu khan in baghdad.
@@MM-qh9yh you worship a statue in church did jesus was pray in church?!
@@mrdonaldabuivankatrump2700 you worship mish mash of Arabic paganism and Jewish doctrine. 🤣😆
@@MM-qh9yh the jews know that we are monotheism not like you moron 😂😂😂 there's one god not three
*Ilkhanate goes to fight mamluks
Golden Horde: It’s free realestate
*Ilkhanate goes to fight the Golden Horde
Mamluks: it’s free realestate
周緒 so everytime the Illkhanate is distracted, it’s free real estate for either the Mamelukes of the Golden Horde
@Gladius pax I don't think religion had anything to do with it. Throughout history countries has always exploited their rival's weaknesses. Even Muslims did it to other Muslims. Christians did it to other Christians. It's just politics tbh. Just proves that Berke knew politics well. And the whole burning of Baghdad thingy was just a casus belli.
EDIT: Also Berke actually supported Ariq Boke in the Toluid civil war while the Ilkhanate supported Kublai. So Berke had every reason to fight the Ilkhanate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toluid_Civil_War
Glenn Krenz Genghis Khan? Very doubtful. Hulagu maybe. Though it may just have been pressure from his Christian wife
@Gladius pax They typically incorporated many skilled workers and works of knowledge into their realms afterwards... it's not like they were causing destruction for no reason...
Jevin Liu Well they did exterminated 40% of world population not including the Black Death which was spread by mongols when they launched dead bodies with catapults as chemical weapons. Mongol invasion was a world disaster.
I just love how Qalawun's on top of the hill, chilling with his bois while his left flank collapses and routs around him
Me and the boys in spectator mode.
That’s discipline
Great Turkic leader and Turkic state.
They are Kipchak and Oghuz.
The name of their state is the "Turkish state"
ed-Devletü't-Türkiyye (Arabic: الدولة التركية) and Devletü'l-Etrâk (Arabic: دولة الاتراك)
@@mahfi-iturki2090
relax
Baibars the Great Panther🇹🇷🇰🇿🇪🇬
The term 'Mamluk Sultanate' is a modern historiographical term.[9] Arabic sources for the period of the Bahri, Mamluks refer to the dynasty as the State of the Turks (Arabic: دولة الاتراك, Dawlat al-Atrāk; دولة الترك, Dawlat al-Turk) or State of Turkey (الدولة التركية, al-Dawla al-Turkiyya).[16][17][9]
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Fuck the qajars.
Haitam chouiekh
Baibars is best commander of the history of Egypt
@@albatros33 Saladin?
Haitam chouiekh
He is also good commander but not best because Baibars defeated Mongols
"More Mongols were killed in flight than in the actual battle."
Isn't that how almost every battle worked in those days?
Yea for most of human warfare the high casualties didn't start until an army broke formation and ran.
Jacob Hartman Pretty much. Most of the casualties were sustained during the “rout” after an army’s formation had shattered and were in full retreat. That’s why battles where one side wins but doesn’t rout the enemy are often indecisive.
Great Turkic leader and Turkic state.
They are Kipchak and Oghuz.
The name of their state is the "Turkish state"
ed-Devletü't-Türkiyye (Arabic: الدولة التركية) and Devletü'l-Etrâk (Arabic: دولة الاتراك)
My favorite TH-cam channel right now, keep waiting all week for this, I hope it never stops.
Not planning to! :-)
I think Georgia deserves a video or two on this great documentary channel, for its Golden Age or just because of how such a small country outlived greatest empires and preserved its culture, unique language, religion and traditions.
The battle of Didgori is the most important battle in Georgia's history. We would want him to do only 1 video about that,no more.
@@androtchitchinadze3450 not only Georgias history,its important to whole chirstian world.
@@leo7325 What? How?
@@androtchitchinadze3450 We weakened very strong muslim power that was a threat to christianity in eastern europe and caucasus
@@leo7325 Since when was there a Muslim empire that was never a threat to the Caucasus? :(
Baybars im surprised how i never heard of him such an intelligent and capable ruler definitely one of the best rulers from what i have seen in your videos.
Mamluk the gate of Africa which Mongol never pass.
Marrinids the gate of Africa which the crusades will never pass
so technically mongols didnt have a N pass ?
@@mohammedyassine9263 lol they lost against the spanish in the north and the zyanids in the east
maghreb always has to save the middle east. even alexander did a 180 when facing the direction of carthage.
@@KunglawAdy That's brilliant
😂👌
Mongols: "We've conquered China, Russia and Persia- our hordes are invincible!"
Mamluks: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."
Yeaah fought among themselves... Enjoy that ! 🤣
@Zlatan you are talking like mamluke were all the time United. Mongols were too big to be United.
@Zlatan the mamlukes decisively defeated the mongols in several battles. (like in the battles of Marj al-Saffar 1303, ain jalut, 2nd homs, elbistan ect). in some, the mamlukes were greatly outnumbered by the mongols and still beat them. like in the legendary battle of marj al saffar.
mongol rule was pushed back and started to significantly decline. such repetitive defeats can't be explained just by saying "mongols were devided" , especially given that the mongols had still much bigger resources and numbers than the mamlukes.
you're just a jealous loser who don't wanna admit the glory the Muslim believers.
@@siegfriedia9986 whats the point of bigger force if you have to spread it arround your kingdom. If Mongols were united theyll overrun everybody.
@@siegfriedia9986 ofc mamluks are of turk origin. They will win
Excellent video as usual, just wish there was more about Berke Khan(the first muslim mongol)'s alliance with the Mamluks and his beef with Hulagu over the sack of Baghdad.
Still excellent nonetheless
There is debate over how much of an alliance this actually was. Our sources for that come from the Mamluks themselves: had Temur not destroyed the Golden Horde's archives, we wonder how they might have depicted it. It's been suggested that they actually saw it as the Mamluks actually having submitted to the Jochids. Further, there doesn't seem to have been any tangible cooperation between Mamluk or Golden Horde armies.
The most important consequences was keeping open Mamluk access to the slave markets of the Qipchaq steppe, and helped keep the Ilkhanate and Golden Horde from coming to peace terms more often.
It seems Berke's religion may not have been as important a factor as often portrayed. Baghdad fell in 1258, but Berke did not go to war with Hulegu until the end of 1262. If he was upset about the sack of Baghdad, it was not an immediate casus belli, though it certainly may have contributed to Berke's distaste for his cousin. Hulegu's murder of Jochid princes, and clashing territorial claims over what is now modern Azerbaijan, with the vacuum in the authority of the Great Khan due to the war between Ariq Boke and Kublai, were likely the more direct factors leading to an outbreak of hostilities.
Imam ibn taymiah converted berke khan and golden horde into islam
Second point the mamlukes were also consisted of turkic muslims cousins of mongols probably that's how they were able to convert to Islam easily I mean the golden horde
@the great han un han the great han un han nob
The golden horde converted with berke khan all historian agree on that not
Ibn tymia
@the great han un han the great han un han i know
@@mohammedyassine9263 was ibn tymiyah a christian
Mongols : No one can defeat us, we are unstoppable.
Mamluks : You had fun lads, but lets just wrap this up now
How many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man.
M1081 5 Kipchak, Kanly, Oguz turks (Mamluks) fought with other turks Kipchaks/Kanly/Nayman/Kerey/Uisun/Tabyn etc., (Mongols) to save arab world.
Abdullah Shah
Says the intellectual who thinks that arabs live only in arab peninsula...or that arab is a race :/
Abdullah Shah
Syrians are arabs now, what you call aramaic and arabic are not races bit ethnic groups, you mix the two and that’s wrong. They belong to the semitic race with the J haplogroup.
Egyptions are mostly semitic with lesser african genes. They are even called the uncles of ismaelites arabs. Since the wife of abraham was egyption. That makes the difference between them and jews actually. Yet they all semitic people. and all speak Arabic as native language which makes them arabs. If i have direct descendant from genkhis khan, it doesn’t mean I’m mongol now. I’m racially, culturally and languistically arab. Like egyptions, syrians. And iraqis
Also many arabian tribes went to live With all these people and mixed with them. So we’re talking jewish, aramiaic egyptions arab mix, that makes arabs since arab is the dominant ethbic group and arabic is the main language. Some people have discontent with that. Yet it doesn’t change this fact.
Abdullah Shah
Never said that speaking arabic only makes you arabic
The rest if your reply is just wrong. Genetics, culture, language, religion, even geopolitics and government systems. Social movements...all is direct impact of arab islamic conquests and migrations, your name is abdullah yet i agree that it doesn’t make you arab for sure.
Guess what ? I’m berber
I am from Elbistan :D it felt weird to see my hometown mentioned in a popular youtube video.
🙂
The beacons are lit.
Syria Calls for aid.
And Egypt Shall answer.
براہمداغ Bahrain shall drink tea and watch
@@bahrain7274 : Where was Bahrain when the orcs sacked Baghdad ?
That moment, it was exactly the thing that I was thinking :D "The Beacons are lit!"
Well they were the same country at the time.
@@TheFiresloth Bahrain dude... its population so small... it was not as important as today & it is a really small country. Less than 10000km2
The Muslim Warriors made an end to the Mongol empire as well as they did to the Byzantium and Sassanid and Crusaders as well...
Then came British, Spanish, and Portuguesse
And then got colonized easily lol
@The Black Falcon lol
@The Black Falcon we are in 2021 bro and corona just put our all religions to shame it's time to become atheist ⚛️ not religious.
The Mamluks did not owe their victory over the Mongols to their own power alone. Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz quotes from a letter from Hülegü to King Ludwig IX. from France. In it the Mongol wrote that the grazing grounds in Syria were exhausted and that the troops could no longer be supplied. Last but not least, it was the ecological conditions of Syria and Palestine that set the limits of the Mongol towers. The small-scale landscapes of the Levant were simply too barren for their huge herds.
Mamluks were badass.
Bong Brigade yes, they were Kipchaks
@@tasbykekerey1203 They were kipchak turks until 1382. When ottomans destroyed mamluks in 1517 they were ruled by circassians.
Chad slave dynasty 🏴
@@abrahmicsupremacist38
Everyone is Slaves in Islam slaves to allah
@@cuzimmoody6470 Not it actually means slave. Khadim/Khadam means servent. However, in the context and relation to Allah, Abd actually means Worshipper so Abd Allah means 'Worshipper of Allah'
Ghazan did indeed seem like a fairly competent leader what a pity he died so young
I dunno why people bring genetics into this. Genetics don’t determine your choices, culture religion, or political affiliation. White doesn’t mean christian, black doesn’t mean culturally African and brown...well it doesn’t mean muslim or arab either.
@@lastword8783 there certainly is thought that it was just propaganda: however, it was convincing enough that some top figures of the Mamluk (i.e governors in Syrian cities) believed. There was a bit more to it as well, that the Mamluk soldiers had also violated Muslim women during the raid, which is a rather believable thing for an army in any period. It was worth the chance to undermine the Mamluk defence from Ghazan's point of view either way.
There was a Mamluk jurist in Damascus who did call out Ghazan for his hypocrisy when he took the city, since I'm sure his soldiers weren't much better.
@@IronWarrior86 He was just ruling over persians so nothing special. Now persians are avenging a millenium old Turkic/Mongol rule by assimilating Turks living in Iran
@@IronWarrior86 good joke
The Jackmeister: Mongol History The Muslim jurist is Ibn Taymiyyah
The battles were amazing as always, but this was especially interesting right at the end to me. The shifting lines of territories as time ticks along is like seeing it flow, like one big story made up of countless smaller ones. I love this.
One of the most fascinating aspects of all the videos on this channel, to me, is that records of this detail still exist nearly 800 years later for this specifically and much, much longer for some. I mean, I know the Greeks were keeping records 2000+ years ago and even to some extent, the Sumerians like 6000 years ago, but it is still amazing to me. It shows the need to keep records of things. It's crazy that we know such level of detail to know which flank did what, at what time of day things happened, when who retreated, number of casualties, seemingly every detail of the belligerents, and so on... But of all the amazing things we know about the past, imagine the things we don't know - from great civilizations that were conquered and nearly erased by the victors, minor civilizations that fell into disrepair/disrepute/etc, ones that didn't keep good record or records at all, ones from before keeping records was in fashion, etc. It boggles the mind. Also, I guess this is why this part of the world (Anatolia/Asian Minor) is so interesting to me - it was greatly influenced by and sandwiched between several major world powers - Europe/Christianity, the Arab world/Islam, Mongols who converted to Islam but also fought alongside European Christians, etc. A melting pot of the ancient world. And one final note, it's crazy how big the Aral Sea used to be and how small it is now. I remember reading about it's shrinkage when I was a kid.
How do you know you can trust it?
Ooh timur at the end is like seeing an end credits scene! Can't wait.
You work seriously, Kings and Generals! Happy holidays!
Happy holidays!
Mongols: "You can't defeat me"
Abbasids: "No. But he can"
Mamelukes: *ANGRY KIPCHAK NOISES*
this is turk powerrrr!
@@Judge_Magister That was 600 years later. Completely unrelated.
@@Judge_Magister Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt was a complete disaster
@@tacomuncher only lost due to the english
@@Judge_Magister what the fuck ???????
I am turkman turk from elbistan, in elbistan poeple still talk about and have evidences of 2 big wars that ocured on the plain. One is the war between roman army and persia (thou turks were not at anatolia but many castels of rome) and this war memluk mongol war. And many stories of timur s elephants.
Amazing as always. How about battle of khandaq or battle of the trench, it's one of the hardest battle for Muslim.
not many reliable sources about what actually happenned. You might like it but it is hard to present a battle that is only in oral history with little archeaological evidence
It's hard to find which one is right.
Some people tell this story a bit different. So, I don't know what happened back then.
Is it low casualties for both side?
How Muslim survive that battle facing quraisy in front of them, and Jewish behind them?
Mongol: Baghdad it's ours, Abbasid is gone and....
*Mamluk appears*
Mongol: Why do I hear boss music so sudden ?!
Mongols: Baghdad it's ours, Abbasid is gone and....
*Monkhe Khan dies* and over 80% of the Mongol invasion force had to go back home.
@@ElBandito *Laughs in Mamluk*
Fun fact those Mamluk have Mongol ancestry in their DNA. They were taken as a slave who will have to serve later as a warrior and they did, not as a soldier but as a King!!
And then the Ottomans take the Mamluks in half a year.
You mean the Illkhanates. Because the only guy to invade the Mongol heartlands AKA its powerbase was Yongle.
EDIT: Not trying take anything away from Baibars though. The guy was a beast.
Good video, I did not know that the mamluks were so badass!
Yeah, for a century or two, they were the strongest empire of the region, checking the Ottomans, Mongols, various Iranian empires, Crusaders and others.
Baibars was a legend😍
best Egyptian Ruler
@@karamany9870 Turk*
@@DevletGM Why do people keep calling everyone turk?
@@rowland5951 Cuz he was Kipchak Turk lol the most basic thing to know
this man is turk C*
from slavery to sultan, we never know what life has waiting for us around the corner
I wish there was more discussion on the life of Baybars and the general formation of the Mamluk Sultanate
@@Judge_Magister that little man would run away and leave his troops in the lands of Muhammad Ali
@علي ياسر he’s Cassius Clay to me
love all of these mongol history videos. keep em coming, they're brilliant!
i love this channell ... not only it teach us so much about the history of diffirent regions ... but it also give us a chance to clash our thoughts and correct our wrong knowledge in comments ... just because to answer someone that is saying something you think as wrong or correct yourself .. you go to internet to find the correct answer and learn more about the thinks you didnt even know or thouht as correct/incorrect .. its not only giving people a single amount of knowledge but it also gives an oppurtinity to people to search and learn ..how amazing can a history channel be ... i appreciate your hard work K&G .. keep up the good work :)
Great job man, thanks for this remarkable video! Waiting your next video about Chagatay ulus and Timurids.
P/S. We honour and respect our Kipchak ancestor Baybars in Kazakhstan.
Kazakh government helps to restore his mosque in Cairo.
Turkic brothers!
I cant wait to see the Emir Timur's campaigns! Amazing video as always.
Im from Elbistan, Turkey and didnt know this battle
Well, now you know :-)
@Cor Kalom Evet
Sen tarih bilmiyormuşsun mübarek. Bu bilinmeyecek şey mi? Tarihin akışını değiştiren 3-5 hadiseden birisi bu.
You must've been heavy sleeper
The Golden Horde seemed to be the most stable Mongol Empire break away, making it a formidable force to reckon with.
The battle of Marj Al-Saffar deserve its own video IMO.
Yep, it really does, i hope they make a single video including every Mongol offensive in 1300s
Marj al saffar @ 1303 is a very significant battle. The battle which occurred after the infamous fatwah of Ibn taymiyya
*IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN...*
Can hear the glorious name 'Orhan Gazi'. Filled my heart.
I love how you display the battle scenes like a chessboard or aerial view basically.
Did not know that Crusader knights fought alongside the Mongols. Enemy of my enemy is my friend indeed.
@Glenn Krenz Wtf, Aryan Christianity? more like Eastern Nestorian Christianity and Timur wiped them entirely. Halagu's wife was a Nestorian Christian.
It was all world vs muslim
Yet they both got served.
Yet the mongols converted to islam
Armenians and Georgians= Nani ?!
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan Not just armenians. Georgian king supported mongols with his army on syrian campiangs. And crusader kingdoms in levant started to harass mamluks when mongol army approaching to levant.
The Battle of Marj al-Saffar (or Marj al-Suffar), also known as the Battle of Shaqhab, took place on April 20 through April 22, 1303 between the Mamluks and the Mongols and their Armenian allies near Kiswe, Syria, just south of Damascus. The battle has been influential in both Islamic history and contemporary time because of the controversial jihad against other Muslims and Ramadan related fatwas issued by Ibn Taymiyyah, who himself joined the battle.[7] The battle, a disastrous defeat for the Mongols, put an end to Mongol invasions of the Levant. This battle was the final test when mongol were convinced that they would never be able to conquer Egypt as they brought their entire force and allies numbering about 100000 strong.
Mamluks: Finally we drive the Mongols away...
A monk: After facing the Mongol invasion, nobody could've dreamed that a serious peril could ever rise from the east again. However, Timur--
Mamluks: Oh, come on!
Medieval 2 Total War in a nutshell when you're playing as an eastern Muslim faction.
Playing as the Seljuks, its always a bitch and a half. But i've favored the Moors as they are my ancestors from the Spanish side as a Mexican.
This is the best channel on youtube! I really appreciate all the hard work ya'll have put into it. Amazing stuff!
Great Content.Thanks for that.☺☺
I request you to make details documentaries about the Campaigns of Baibars,Saladin and Mahmud of Gazni.
Berke Khan had become a Muslim and was devastated by the sack of Baghdad by Hulugu Khan.Berke Khan launched attacks on Hulugu and stuck an alliance with the Mamluks.
Salute to Sultan Baibars who was the greatest Muslim warrior after Khalid bin Walid.
Nope
🇰🇿❤ Turkic leader
But Khalid wasn't the best warrior
@@Error111 Better than every Turkish warrior combined.
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Khaled Ibn Al-Walid is the greatest Muslim warrior in history. Even the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, called him the unleashed sword of God. I mean, the Turks were not Muslims after my brother. Forget about racism and let your loyalty be to Islam only, not to nationalism or race.
@@حٌفِّيِّدِأّلَفِّاروِقِ-خ8ص good speech my dear brother 👏
Mamluks are also popular. Because they were the only state that defeated and stopped the Mongols, magnificently objective western sources call the Mamluks an Egyptian (!) state, similar to the Pechenegs, the Avars, even though the Mamluk sources generally record the name of their state as "ed-Devletü't-Türkiyye" (Turkish State). Good video man.
The greatest horror of the Crusaders and the Mongols
"Mamluks"
Allaedin was a turkic leader of sultanate
@@Judge_Magister You again?
The Mamluks collapsed in 1517 after the Ottoman invasion. Napoleon invaded almost 300 years later, and was defeated and crushed by the Egyptians.
You are just salty that the chad Mamlukes made your Crusader states raise the white flag like you always do.
@@Judge_Magister You are currently either drunk or reading your own made-up history. It is hilarious that you call me an alternate history reader while you yourself have zero knowledge of history. Popular Egyptian uprisings and British support were the reason why baguettes failed in Egypt. Also, the Ottoman Empire survived for 100 more years after the Napoleonic Wars. Doesn't sound like a collapse, more like stagnation and slow painful decline like Rome.
@@abdullahowaisqureshi8541 Napolean wasnt "crushed" like u said lmao
Napolean humilliated the whole of egypt and ottoman empire with a small army making the mamluks run for their lifes.
Go check the battle of pyramids
Imam Ibn Tayymiah's fatwas ended the Mongol invasion of the Mamluk realm (Battle of Marj al Saffar) and changed the course of Islamic history.
His the biggest Piece of shit ever
Yahya B the pussy of the valley
Who cares
@the great han un han the great han un han Bedoins Najdis of Saudi Zionist Arabia Are Wahabis... Who created by british in last century. We Sunnis are Hunbali Shafais Malikis and Hanafis
The graphics and sound effects have improved. Absolutely great job and thank you for your efforts.
Always makes me emotional whenever I watch these videos about our defeat against the Mamluks but heh, we still had a good and memorable run x)
Doni Bathuu why destroy chinese wall ??
No problem bruh, everyone had their good days and bad days
I love this channel. This is the kind of content the History Channel should be doing!
I love this channel so much! Great Job guys!!!!! 😊
Wonderful series on Mongols feels bad how their mighty realm came to an end.
Islam was a power within itself that whoever embraced it was unstoppable be he Arab, turkic or Mongolian
@Kings and General you make always good,proffesional and interesting videos and as a Bulgarian ,I appriciate a lot that you make whole serie about us.Nobody (outside ourselves) did that before. Somehow the Balkans are forgetten for the Western world - although we can show a lot to the world. Thank you again. Just I want to make small corrrection: Bulgaria exists till 1396 and in the video is illustrated as Byzantine Empire which is not the case. Only for few years we were Vassals of the Mongols(Golden Horde - so maybe as Mongols) ,but for sure cannot be illustrated as Byzantine Empire :). Thank you anyway again for the great Videos.I always watch them -each Video till now.
I think I left Bulgaria uncolored. More on them in the episodes regarding the Golden Horde.
@@KingsandGenerals Waiting the next Videos for sure. Glad to have you and the program.
indeed learning more about bulgaria was indeed a good deed ... you learn really much about history in this channel (even about the thinks you think you already know ) .. its clearly my best channel :)
Looking forward to Timur's video, if it is in making...
Keep your eyes open, you will find your patience amptly rewarded in future.
I’m from Georgia thank you for this video 👏🏼
So much learning about the Middle East interesting History - and close to 1 Million subscribers, by the way. Thanks, and congrats!
Great video! One note; Turkmens did not use the Arap title 'emir', they used the Turkic title 'bey'.
Bilge Turkkan yes but they are in Egypt and levent
Bilge Turkkan
No they used the title Emir because the official language of the sultanate was Arabic. The majority of the Mamluks were born in Egypt and their descendants were called “Awlad el nas”, these were the best of the Mamluks like AlNasir Muhammed. Those who were not, were brought from a very young age. These two spoke Arabic as first language and Persian words were heavily used as well.
However, there were Mamluks who were recruited from old age like those who came from the Mongol controlled area like Kibugha. These people initially spoke little to no Arabic but were later Egyptianized, though the majority of the population hated them and often removed them from power like what happened between Baibars Al Jashnakir and an-nasir Muhammed whom his rule was regarded as golden age of enlightenment and Mamluk architecture masterpieces
Brilliant as always !
it would be great if you guys did the Battles of stamford bridge and Hastings.
Thanks! Will consider!
Awesome! Keeps getting better
Thanks!
I was waiting for this, now I’m getting impatient to get to the end! 🤓
Thank you for another great video!
Thanks for watching!
man,u took me through a time machine.
Good :-)
The Egyptians had a large population and could have mobilized major infantry armies, but they opted for cavalry only. Just like the Mongols.
The tactical lesson that I learned from this video is to never ever have a slower army than your enemy if he is mounted or mechanized.
Going up against the Mongols with large infantry units is almost like not having an army at all.
the terrain made infantry heavy armies pointless. Marching for days in the Sinai desert would be insane.
@@SantomPh exactly. And also let me revise my statement. The Vietnamese obviously nibbled and gradually destroyed Mongols invaders by skillfully employing their infantry as skirmishers.
But as you said, that does not work out in open plains or in the desert.
Çünkü ordu atlı okçu olan aynı zamanda zırhlı olan Türk süvarilerden oluşuyordu mısırın yerli halkı orduda kullanılmıyordu.
I’m later than my first date 😁, Another great video Kings 👍
Ooo nice tease about the Timurids, one of my favorite historic figures ever, Tamerlane. :)
Love the quality of these videos
Thanks!
I remember the children's book made about this man: Baybar the Elephant. Pretty brutal as I recall.
Wow. Did this channel just get a huge popularity boost?
Not really, going very steady :-)
@@KingsandGenerals Cool! Keep up the good work!
I can't wait for the series on Timur
Notification squad here ❤
Beautiful as always
"Among my offspring, many emperors will come into existence after this. If my grandees and warriors who serve them do not maintain the yasaq strictly, the empire will become shaky and end. They will wish they had Chinggis Khan, but they will not have him." -Chinggis Khan, as recorded in Jamiat al-Tawarikh, Rashid al-Din.
Man, I love your channel, best thing I found on the internet this year even the ad is top quality
Burke khan of Golden Horde was the unsung hero in all this. His attacks on ilkhanate kept Mongols from attacking the rest of Mamlukes holdings, sparing cities like Makkah and Medina. Mongols wanted to subject the holiest cities in Islam to the same treatment that they gave to Baghdad. However, Berke vising Bukhara converted to Islam. From that point onward, Berke become a sworn enemy of ilkhanate.
A nicely informative video. Good job to whoever made this video a reality.
The biggest victory was the Ilkhanate becoming Muslim. Alhamdulillah
hahah you're awsome 😜😜
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The narraor is a graet orator. His great command of the english language is commendable.
Yes I won the bet , thanks for uploading this video
*Islamic Ilkhanate*
Genghis Khan
: ama i joke to you guys
The Mongols came to destroy Islam but became Muslims themselves.Allah works in mysterious ways.
@@Ali-sh6kh Same thing can be said about many different religions where something similar happened. Animism is a weak religion compared to religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. The Mongols today are primarily Buddhists, so much for Allah keeping his flock.
@Ali , No.. Only small portion of Mongols are Muslim. Today 90% Mongols are Buddhists.
@@chucktowne i think he means the mongols who settle in Mesopotamian and all Ilkhante and the golden horde and even Chagatai Khanate domain, the mongol of actual Mongolia were under the fourth mongol part the yuen dynasty, who were affected more by the Chinese culture.
@তৈমুর লং My whole point is that Islam isn't the only religion to overtake the Mongols or any other religions. Christianity overthrew almost every religion in Europe and the Americas, the same thing happened in Asia and Africa with different religions. So its not just Islam.
Fun fact: A Mongol by the name of Kitbugha had ruled as the Sultan of the Mamlukes from 1294-1296. So in a way Mongols did reach Cairo. ;)
Keep dreaming about history🤣🤣🤣mongolic peoples never ever ruled africa
4:30 to 5:10 this section included multiple things that are pleasing to hear!
Mamaluks won because mongols were far from their strong base in Mongolia and China. While Mamaluks were near their hom in Cairo, easy supplies and men power when you are closer to your home base
Hulagu Khan's Ikhanate was in Persia not China Kublai Khan had Khan Baliq in China, the real reason for the Mongol defeat is because Hulagu Withdrew the bulk of his forces to Persia in Tabriz, soon after the Mongol Muslim Khan Berke waged a war against him, this engaged the Bulk of his forces so the Battle between Mongols and Mamleukes was even both having 20,000 Men each, Baibars however smashed the Mongols killed Hulagu Khan's best man Kitbuqa as well as the Majority of their forces.
15:45 When the Shogun 1 Total War Mongol soundtrack started playing, I damn near jumped out of my seat in excitement.
The throat Singing that begins at 16:15 was always my favorite part, I'm surprised K&G waited this long in the series to use it and use it when the Mongols are losing, cause that's boss winning music right there.
Do you know the name of this track?
@@tigerkralle7019 search on TH-cam "Shogun: Total War OST Mongol battle1" uploaders channel name is Darth SHAKER.
@@LORDMEHMOODPASHA Thank you
I hate how you always undermine the victories of the mamluks by claiming they had bigger numbers
Or by claiming that the Mongol leader had little experience
Please stop being biased
Yeah exactly