The Berke-Hülagü War: Nogai #4

In the 1260s, two civil wars split apart the Mongol Empire. In this video, we look at one of them: the Berke-Hülegü War, fought between Golden Horde and Ilkhanate over the pastures of the Caucasus. Along the way, we detail the involvement of Nogai, the famous 'khanmaker' of the Golden Horde, as this was his first appearance in the historical sources. Hikma History's video:    • How Berke Khan Converted To Islam | Mongol...   Introduction to Nogai:    • Nogai Khan: Historical Context and Introdu...   Life in the Golden Horde:    • How a Mongol Prince lived in the Golden Ho...   DONATIONS Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theja... Patreon:   / jackmeister   Facebook:   / thejackmeister   Chapters: 0:38 Part 1, Background 7:33 Part 2, War Begins, September 1262-June 1263 11:00 Part 3, Foreign Diplomacy 15:16 Part 4: The Quiet of 1263 and 1264 18:35 Part 5, the Berke-Abaqa War 20:11 Part 6, Aftermath SOURCES Primary sources: Kirakos Gandzakets’i. History of the Armenians. Translated by Robert Bedrosian. New York: Sources of the Armenian Tradition, 1986. Grigor of Akanc’. History of the Nation of the Archers (the Mongols). Translated by Robert P. Blake and Richard N. Frye. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 12 no. ¾ (1949): 369-399. The Mongols in Iran: Qutb al-Dīn Shīrāzī’s Akhbār-i Moghūlān. Translated by George Lane. Routledge: New York, 2018. Rashīd al-Dīn. The Successors of Genghis Khan. Translated by John Andrew Boyle. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. Rashiduddin Fazlullah. Jami’ u’t-tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles: A History of the Mongols. Translated by W. M. Thackston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1998. Secondary Literature: Amitai-Preiss, Reuven. Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Īlkhānid War, 1260-1281. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog, The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335). Leiden: Brill, 2011. Boyle, J.A. “Dynastic and Political History of the Īl-Khāns.” in Cambridge History of Iran vol. 5 ,The Saljuq and Mongol Periods, edited by J.A Boyle, 303-421. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Broadbridge, Anne F. Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Favereau, Marie. “Berke Khan and Sultan Baybars: The Debate over Conversion to Islam.” Turkological Studies 2 no. 3 (2019): 7-13. Hope, Michael. Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Irwin, Robert. The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate 1250-1382. Southern Illinois University Press 1986 Muhammad Abdul Karim, “Baghdad’s Fall and its Aftermath: Contesting the Central Asian Political Background and the Emergence of the Islamic Mongol Dynasties,” Al-Jami’ah: Journal of Islamic Studies 56 no. 1 (2018): 187-224. Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion. 2018. Trepavlov, Vadim. “The Formation of the Ulus of Jochi,” in The Golden Horde in World History, 134-144 (2017). Vásáry, István. Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. MUSIC ATTRIBUTES: Machinations by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Dhaka by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ “Throat singing- Tuvan Chylandyk style,” Giovanni Bortoluzzi / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... “Overtone Singing- Tuvan Sygyt,” Giovanni Bortoluzzi / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... “Dimash-Kudaibergen- Adai-küy,” Unknown author / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... “Undertone singing,” Cassa342 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... The other music is provided by Epidemic Sound. http://www.epidemicsound.com #Berkekhan #goldenhorde #mongolempire