How true is the quote that a woman could walk from one end of the Mongol empire to the other end with a bag of gold...

Mongols were basically medieval biker gangs. They were thugs riding around and bullying people, but they treated their subjects really nicely.

Maybe in a city or near an army where laws were strict and punishment swift and brutal but between cities and in the country side where there were many displaced, hungry people that bitch would be robbed raped and buried.

Theres even some bandit ethnic groups in china whose origin stories come from this period.

>Theres even some bandit ethnic groups in china whose origin stories come from this period.

That sounds crazy, source?

I may be full of shit because my google-fu skills arent being very helpful and i can't remember the book i read it in.

mongolian and turkic "yassa" on robbery were pretty brutal, as such it was probably a big deterrent to any such bandits

picture related from ottoman empire, bandits were killed "by the hook"
they were brought up high above a hook with ropes and dropped on it. they were then left there for public to see until they died. sometimes the victim stayed alive on the hook for over a week.

gold is very dense. i would think that you might do some damage carrying any quantity of gold coins on your head over a long distance.

also if she doesn't take sufficient breaks and meals she may come to be harmed that way.

>Turkic

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0. Shed get robbed. Sure population was scarce and military divisions were alone. The silk road was a breeding ground for crime.

...they wuz?

Khan is a Turkic word you negro.

Its an old saying based on the harsh laws of mongol on robbers.

Fear does the trick for both parties involved.

the point was even the mongols who would break the law would answer to higher khan and have their head on the plate

Anatolians are not related to Mongols in the slightest you buffoon

Khan is derivitive of mongol word, khagan.

It entered the Turkic and then South Asian language after the Chinggis Khan made it synonymous with mongols rulers.

Khan is the contemporary Mongolian word, khagan is the Middle Mongolian word. The Mongolian languages had a major sound shift in the early modern period which consistently altered many of the words they used.

Turkic languages' use of the word predates the Mongolian Empire, the Mongol and Turkic tribes extensively shared a lot of cultural aspects, including words, although this particular word is ultimately thought to originate in Mongol languages, it was actually borrowed back from Turkic languages at one point, due to a decline in use in the original languages.

Maybe not killed but raped, sure they were.

>Anatolians
We were talking about Turkics here?
>It entered the Turkic and then South Asian language after the Chinggis Khan made it synonymous with mongols rulers.
Nope.jpg.

Otherwise you'd have to explain all those fucking Khans from Eastern Central Asia to Bulgaria centuries before Mongols even existed as a people like Khan Krum in Bulgaria or Li Shimin (Taizong of T'ang) being called "Heavenly Khan" by his Turkic subjects.

Those Khans were because of Avar migration to the west.

Its mildly in parts to the Chinese who drove the nomadic kingdoms from China's border.

Khagan is first used by the Xianbei, the proto-mongols, that lived near the Chinese border and in modern day inner mongolia. Later on, they had a confederation of nomadic tribes that carried on the legacy of Khanate naming scheme. The Chinese broke that confederation with use of double agents and bribing each the tribes in the confederation to fight each other. One of them escaped and went westward. They later became the Avars.

In related note, the rise of XIanbei and the collective is because of the vacuum left behind by the previous generation of nomadic people that China drove off, the Xiongnu. They moved west and became the Huns.

So its a mongol origin. It entered the Turkic world afterwards.