Golden Horde

Examples of Golden Horde in the following topics:

• Ivan I and the Rise of Moscow

  • Yury had also made a successful alliance with the Mongol leader Uzbeg Khan and married his sister, securing more power and advantages within the hierarchy of the Golden Horde.
  • Ivan I continued the family tradition and petitioned the leaders of the Golden Horde to gain the seat of Grand Prince of Vladimir.
  • Ivan I knew that the peace of his region depended upon keeping up an alliance with the Golden Horde, which he did faithfully.
  • Before the rule of the Golden Horde the original Russian Orthodox Church was based in Kiev.
  • Sarai, the capital of the Golden Horde, sat to the southeast, while Moscow (not visible on this map) was tucked up in the northern forests of Vladimir-Suzdal.

• The Mongol Threat

  • Rus’ became part of what is known as the Golden Horde, the western extension of the Mongol Empire located in the eastern Slavic region.
  • However, Rus’ principalities paid tribute and taxes to the Mongol rulers regularly, under the umbrella of the Golden Horde (the western portion of the Mongol Empire).
  • This illustration shows the rapid expansion of the Mongol Empire as it traveled west into what became known as the Golden Horde.

• The Formation of Russia

  • Between the two leaders, what would become known as the “Gathering of the Russian Lands” would occur and begin a new era of Russian history after the Mongol Empire’s Golden Horde.
  • Moscow refused to pay its normal Golden Horde taxes starting in that year, which spurred Khan Ahmed to wage war against the city in 1480.

• Kublai Khan

  • The four empires were known as khanates, each pursuing its own separate interests and objectives: the Golden Horde Khanate in the northwest, the Chagatai Khanate in the west, the Ilkhanate in the southwest, and the Yuan Dynasty, based in modern-day Beijing.
  • In 1304, the three western khanates briefly accepted the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in name, but when the Dynasty was overthrown by the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty in 1368, and with increasing local unrest in the Golden Horde, the Mongol Empire finally dissolved.

• The Mongol Invasions

  • In addition to Emperor of China, Kublai Khan also claimed the title of Great Khan, supreme over the other successor khanates: the Chagatai, the Golden Horde, and the Ilkhanate.
  • All of the three western khanates (Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate, and Ilkhanate) became functionally autonomous; only the Ilkhans truly recognized Kublai as Great Khan.

• Islamic Book Painting

  • Upon the death of Genghis Khan, his empire was divided among his sons and dynasties formed: the Yuan in China, the Ilkhanids in Iran, and the Golden Horde in northern Iran and southern Russia.
  • Islamic book painting witnessed its first golden age in the 13th century, mostly within Syria and Iraq.

• Administrative Reform in the Mongol Empire

  • The Golden Horde, which contained the Rus' principalities and large chunks of modern-day Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, Belarus, and Romania.

• The Mongols in Eastern Europe

  • This conquered region is sometimes  referred to as the Golden Horde.

• The Southern Song Era

  • Although Hulagu was allied with Kublai Khan, his forces were unable to help in the assault against the Song due to Hulagu's war with the Golden Horde.

• A Physical Aside: Einstein coefficients

  • It turns out that the relationships between Einstein coefficients (1917) are an example of Fermi's Golden Rule (late 1920s).
  • Fermi's Golden Rule relates the cross-section for a process to a quantum mechanical matrix element and the phase space available for the products.