[quote=@Dinh AaronMk] You're operating on unfounded assumption which doesn't have merit in a discussion like this. The succession between Ogedei from Genghis Khan was painless as opposed to the fifteen years of succession crisis that followed Timur in his later Empire. His brothers Jochi and Chagatai both supported the ascension of Ogedei and their father's wishes. Once more Jochi died of natural causes so he wouldn't have ever been an issue. Chagatai held his own khanate below his brother. You don't really get an attempt at seizing the Khanate against the proclamation by the Mongol elective council - the kurultai - until Mongke when Genghis Khan's last brother [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tem%C3%BCge]Temuge[/url] tried to take it. But the effort was so lapse and minor that it's hardly a military crisis on how little conflict there is on it; unlike the attempted succession of Timur if I might re-iterate which resulted in 15 years of violence and the loss of Samarkand and other territories. The first actual "civil war" is with Kublai Khan. But by this point the Empire had lapsed so much it didn't matter anymore. By this point Kublai was already the Emperor of China. And by the time of Kublai Khan any and all direct relatives of Genghis Khan were dead. You can't presume, "There could have been violence". Because you're just showing your cards you aren't even trying. [/quote] Jochi was out of the question at this time, and has no relevance to the topic. You are misinterpreting my last post by filling the separation of Genghis Khan's sons into what I supposedly described as violence. That is not true. Because of the divided nation between the remaining Khan's sons, there was an absence of order for a short period, but nothing along the scale of a civil war or military disaster. Kublai's conflict with his younger brother was quite insignificant at the time. If that wasn't enough, Temur being the successor of the Yuan Dynasty in the late 1200's would sign the death of the Mongolians. Shortly after the Yuan Dynasty fell, it was of course replaced by the Ming Dynasty, only about two years after the death of Temur. Between that period and after involved very minor conflict, if not, none at all. Just the continuing process of an inevitable shrinking of the Mongol empire.