Thread 17922248

How did Russia transition from being under Mongol rule to defeating them in just one century?

Guns

>>17922248 (OP)
>one century
Actually close to 250 years

>>17922248 (OP)
>united mongol forces show up versus divided russian principalities who don't know how to fight them
>mongol forces eventually fracture while russian principalities unite, now with decades of understanding how tatars fight

Blam blams hard counter nomad tactics, plus they had literally no enemies other than nomads and thus could entirely focus their tactics and strategies on anti nomad stuff. Knowing the nomad playbook goes a LONG way, a ridiculous amount of mongol victories are just a result of them pulling the same fake retreat bit over and over again while people never catch on because information spread slowly back then, once you've had ages to study all of their mind tricks they're not nearly as effective.

Also, they were the Israel of their times

>>17922248 (OP)
Racial superiority

>>17922248 (OP)
>How did Russia transition from being under Mongol rule to defeating them in just one century?
They didn't, the Golden Horde collapsed into squabbling rump states after Timur's invasions. And in fact, the Great horde itself was destroyed by the Crimean Khanate, not Russia.
>>17922324
>they had literally no enemies other than nomads
This is bad. How can you be so wrong?

>>17922374
Based Rusia

>>17922248 (OP)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulyay-gorod

The Mongol Horde became fragmented at the same time the Moscow principality started to grow in strength.