Tartar vs Mongol: What's the difference?
UPDATE OCTOBER 20TH, 2019: I've revisited this topic, in a new video discussing an argument made by historian Stephen Pow on this historical problem. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK86_enw5pU
You can see the rise of Chinggis Khan in full documentary form here: https://youtu.be/mYe5uYXb5PI
If you read about the Mongols for any length of time, you'll see them called Tatars or Tartars. Here's a very brief look at why Chinggis Khan and his Empire became associated across with a people they had conquered, and how almost every people they encountered knew them as Tatars/Tartars.
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SOURCES USED:
Garcia, Chad D. “A New Kind of Northerner: Initial Song Perceptions of the Mongols.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 42 (2012): 309-342.
Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2017.
May, Timothy. The Mongol Conquests in World History. London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
McLynn, Frank. Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World. London: The Bodley Head,
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Pow, Stephen. “The Last Campaign and Death of Jebe Noyan.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society 27 no.1 (2017) 31-51.
Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy. Edited and translated by Thomas
Nivison Haining. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1991.
Saunders, J.J. The History of the Mongol Conquests. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2001.
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