What was the golden Horde?
The Golden Horde is a Russian name for the Islamic khanate that existed from the 1240s to 1502 in Russia and Eastern Europe (present-day Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus). The Golden Horde was founded in the 1240s by Batu, the eldest son of Genghis Khan, one of the greatest conquerors of land in history. Genghis and his grandson Batu were Mongols, from present-day Mongolia. In a few decades, Genghis, his sons, and two grandsons had conquered most of Asia. The Golden Horde was made out of Mongolians and numerous Turkic peoples that Batu had enlisted after conquering them. In 1235, Batu and the great general Subedei invaded westward from the Asian central steppes region, conquering the Bashkirs (in the southern Urals) and Volga Bulgaria in 1236. In 1237, he conquered Ukraine, thus moved north to begin the historic Mongol invasion of Rus, an invasion which would shape the region culturally and socially for centuries to come. After victory, he spent three years subjugating th
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