The Horde's Great Troubles: Civil War That Destroyed Mongol Russia

In the 1360s, the Golden Horde collapsed into a brutal two-decade civil war known as the Great Troubles. This episode examines how a succession crisis after Khan Berdi Beg's murder plunged the Jochid ulus into chaos, with twenty-plus khans rising and falling in quick succession. We follow the rise of the powerful warlord Mamai, who ruled through puppet khans from the west, and his rival Tokhtamysh, a Chinggisid prince backed by Tamerlane. The war destroyed Sarai's authority, enabled Moscow to defeat Mamai at Kulikovo Field in 1380, and ultimately led to Tokhtamysh's sack of Moscow in 1382. We explore the social and economic breakdown: trade routes severed, the yam system collapsing, cities burning. Central Asia's historians like Ibn Khaldun recorded the chaos. The Great Troubles permanently weakened the Horde, paving the way for Moscow's rise and the end of Mongol rule a century later. #GoldenHorde #GreatTroubles #Mamai #Tokhtamysh #KulikovoField #Sarai #JochidUlus #MongolCivilWar #Tamerlane #BerdiBeg #KhanPuppets #MoscowRise #IbnKhaldun #CentralAsia #14thCentury #MedievalRussia #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo