"The
Mongol Empire and the states that
emerged from it played a major role
in the history of the 13th and 14th
centuries.
Genghis Khaan and his immediate
successors conquered nearly all of
Asia and
European Russia and sent armies
as far as central
Europe and Southeast Asia.
Genghis Khaan abolished the organisation of the former tribes and khanlyks and reformed the country into 95 mingats. In this system, a group of households large enough to mobilise 10 warriors were organised into an arbatu (10 warriors), 10 arbatus were organised into a zagutu (100 warriors), 10 zagutus constituted a mingat (1,000 warriors) and 10 mingats constituted a tumetu or tumen (10,000 warriors). This decimal system was a long tested system that had been inherited from the period of the Xiongnu. With an assumption that each household consisted of 4 persons and every adult male was a warrior, it can be estimated that the entire population of Mongolia was at least 400,000 people and the nation possessed 95,000 cavalrymen." Source: Wikipedia
Genghis Khaan abolished the organisation of the former tribes and khanlyks and reformed the country into 95 mingats. In this system, a group of households large enough to mobilise 10 warriors were organised into an arbatu (10 warriors), 10 arbatus were organised into a zagutu (100 warriors), 10 zagutus constituted a mingat (1,000 warriors) and 10 mingats constituted a tumetu or tumen (10,000 warriors). This decimal system was a long tested system that had been inherited from the period of the Xiongnu. With an assumption that each household consisted of 4 persons and every adult male was a warrior, it can be estimated that the entire population of Mongolia was at least 400,000 people and the nation possessed 95,000 cavalrymen." Source: Wikipedia
