Mongol rule?

Question

Why did the Mongol invasion of Western Europe never materialize? What may have been the effect of this development on Western Europe?

Answer 1

They came as far as Legnica in Western Poland- practically on today's border between Poland and Germany. Victory in battle then a failed siege of the town.
Seems to me they were not happy with the geographic conditions. Europe was in a major part covered by forests while the Mongols relied on horses for transport- some 10 horses per 1 fighting man. Even though the mongol horses would eat almost anything, they still had to eat something.

I think it was the first time the Mongols met with the tactic of scorched earth- the attacked country would retire to fortified places and burn everything on the outside. This was used also further east, in the (successful) defense of Novogrod. Kiev and Moscow tried battles, and lost.

A major factor was the death of the mongol Khan. However his successors were quite active in the southern areas like India and Asia, so this was not the decisive factor. IMO thez considered Europe too expensive to conquer. In the end thez made a nice profit by trading with Europe through the Silk Road

Answer 2

Most empires fall to a concept called over stretch - meaning the mother nation has a finite source of people to manage / rule / administer the conquored lands thus, there are occasional exeptions to this, the British used local levies to run the empire on their behalf, as did the Romans.
The German advance into France in 1914 coulnt provide supplies to the front, similarly repeating itself into the Soviet Union in 1941.
In a nut shell...
As the Mongol horde was far from as organised as it should have been, the advance basically ran out of steam.

Answer 3

they stopped at eastern europe an wetn back to choose a new leader (gengis's succesor had died and they needed to choose another one). they weer also homesick. had they invaded western europe which they no doubt could ahve succesfully done then western europeans would have mongol blood in them as well. everywhere the mongols went they raped and pillaged and today mongol genetics are the most common genetics in the world. this may not have been a bad thing as mixed races are more beautiful.

Answer 4

Ivan III of Russia, additionally universal as Ivan the great, or Ivan III Vasilyevich, ended Mongol rule in Russia while he rejected the "Tartar yoke" and refused to pay tribute to grand Khan Ahmed of the Golden Horde. With years the Golden Horde grow to be decreased to products by making use of the two Russian and Mongol impacts, leaving Ivan and Muscovy with the aid of fact the dominate capability in the region, which might at last carry approximately Muscovy forming Russia.