How did Mongolian empire become so irrelevant ?

How the hell did the Mongolian empire go from being the greatest threat to known world to becoming so fucking irrelevant ? You would think that having the biggest land locked empire in the history of human kind would give you good foundations to build a strong country, but apparently it won't. There were a lot of big empires that fell, but they either evolved into countries that are relevant today (Ottomans-Turkey, Franks-France etc..) or dissolved but their culture and heritage remained ( Rome, Byzantine etc..). However, Mongolia, well remained Mongolia, but it became some God forsaken country in the middle of nowhere, that these days nobody ever hears anything about on the news, or the internet or whatever. Which events lead to modern day Mongolia becoming so irrelevant ?

the empire split into four parts, which all pursued their own interests. all of the mongol rulers eventually assimilated into the cultures of the peoples they had conquered.

Because the Mongol """empire""" was a bunch of horsfucking steppe nomads who just wandered from town to town to collect tribute. It was not an advanced society like the Roman empire for instance.

Well, there was the Mughal empire.

But for your question
>Running around on horses, raping and pillaging is not a great ethos to build empire
>The land was shitty and would require population to migrate at least near Ukraine in order to have sufficient agricultural output for big cities
>Nomadism equals bad infrastructure, decentralization, small and irrelevant cities

Because it was never an empire, it was just a giant protection racket.

yea i would guess you are right about that. It still find it remarkable how irrelevant modern day Mongolia is. I literally don't remember them ever being mentioned on TV or newspapers. They could have probably have done so much better for themselves, had they decided to settle somewhere, like Ukraine like you said, or maybe in chine and tried to assimilate the Chinese, but this is off topic, thanks for explaining

>I see your meme with my meme and raise you a meme

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Fragmentation and dispute between the Khan's, especially the ones from the Toluid lineage.
Berke and members of the Golden Horde had converted to Islam and were pissed off at Hulagu and his ilkhanate for burning down Baghdad and were openly supporting the Mamluks of Cairo.

But what started the real conflict was after Khagan Möngke died and both Ariq and Kublai claimed the throne.
Hulagu would support Kublai while Berke would support Ariq and there were some conflicts and skirmishes.
While Kublai with the help of his Chinese connection won the seat of Khagan of the Mongol Empire, it still made the Golden Horde break off from the main empire while Kublai himself focused more on his affairs in China and the dynasty he had started there.

Add in the fact that Hulagu's entire lineage died off after a plague hit the ilkhanate and smaller turkic states would pop up in the Eastern part while slavs would regain some control of the Western and we were left of with a multicultural cesspool of confusion.

Kublai was the nominal viewed "Great Khan" and he was still the de facto leader of all the Mongol states because he controlled both China and Mongolia itself.

You forgot that they left behind Russia.