What were the four divisions of the Mongol Empire about 1294?

Question

based on history

Answer 1

Who says there were only four? Depending on how you count, there were five or six:

1. Il-Khanate (Persia and Middle East)
2. Empire of the Great Khan (present-day China, Korea, and Russian Far East)
3. Mongol homeland (present-day Mongolia and Chinese Inner Mongolia)
4. Chagadai Khanate (Central Asia)
5. Blue Horde (present-day Kazakhstan and Southern Siberia)
6. White Horde (European Russia, the Urals, and Western Siberia)

The Blue and White Hordes existed separately until late 1300s, when they were merged first under Urus Khan in 1364, and then again under his nephew Toqtamish in 1378...

Answer 2

Mongol Empire 1294

Answer 3

By the reign of Kublai Khan around 1260, the Mongol empire was already in the process of breaking up into smaller khanates. After Kublai died in 1294, his heirs failed maintain peace and prosperity within the empire. Inter-family rivalry surged, leading to a complicated politics of succession, and the debauchery of some of the khans which led them to die pre-maturely hastened the disintegration of the empire.

Another factor which contributed to the disintegration was the decline of morale when the capital was moved from Karakorum to modern day Beijing by Kublai Khan. Kublai concentrated on the war with the Song Dynasty, assuming the mantle of ruler of China, while the more Western khanates gradually drifted away. The four descendant empires were were the 1) Mongol-founded Yuan Dynasty in China, 2) the Chagatai Khanate, 3) the Golden Horde that controlled Central Asia and Russia, 4) and the Ilkhans who ruled Persia from 1256 to 1353.

Answer 4

The Mongol Empire was ruled by the Khagan. After the death of Möngke Khan, it split into four parts (the Yuan Dynasty, Il-Khans, Chagatai Khanate and Golden Horde), each of which was ruled by its own Khan.