The Golden Horde and Galicia-Volhynia 1237-1241
And then came the Mongols!
The Mongols were pushing out the boundaries of their central Asian empire in all directions. Led by the famous Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire began an ominous spread over Asia and Europe, and after his death, the Mongol army, the “Golden Horde,” turned the empire into the largest ever border-to-border land empire in history.
From 1237-1241, the Golden Horde ransacked the palaces of the former ransackers. The fearsomely well equipped and well trained cavalry of Genghis Khan's grandson, Batu Khan, picked the golden fruit accumulated over centuries of dominance by Kyivan Rus’.
The Mongols completely upended the settled regimes of central Asia, and dominated Ukraine for 150 years. Ukraine survived as part of a vassal state, lumped together with Belarus in a region called Galicia-Volhynia, reduced to paying tribute to a Mongolian overlord.
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