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Pulled this one out of the old list of requests from genggiyen-ejen . Here we go.
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The expansions and conquests of the Great Khan may have ended with his death, but the expansion of the great Mongol Horde could not be stopped by anything so simple as the death of one man. Long after the death of the great Chinggis Khan, the Ilkhanate, one of the four primary successor states to to the original Mongol Empire, continued its expansion through Persia, Anatolia, and the Levant, but found its southward expansion stymied by the Ayubbid Caliphate. Regardless, the Mongol drive for expansion and conquest would never be quenched, and in repeated efforts they continued to push against Syria and the Levant. It would only be after a nigh-miraculous success in 1271 that the Ilkhanate would finally conquer Syria and break the back of the already fragile Ayubbids, shattering their Caliphate and allowing the Ilkhanate to push as far east as Benghasi. With the Nile under their control, the upper stretches as far as the cataracts fell within their control.

Expansion this far and this fast, though, would also prove their undoing. Continuing their efforts to expand and grow, the Ilkhanate turned south and drove against Madinah, but failed. And just as it had broken the Ayubbids, so too did the Ilkhanate break here, falling back and only barely holding control over its territory with enemies on all sides. The core of this great effort lay in four regions: Anatolia, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Kemet. Kemet in particular was a strange beast. Being so far from the core of the Ilkhanate, the local bureaucracy was allowed to largely remain in power, and in this case that was the class of slave mercenaries known as the Mamluks. The Mamluks came from many regions and were not free, but far above the average citizens and held the levers of power throughout Kemet at this time. Being allowed to retain local authority, the Mamluks were quick to recognize the rule of the Ilkhanate in exchange for their continued guarantee of power.

Of course, the Ilkhanate could only hold onto so much for so long, and soon it began to fall back from the ever-restless Persia and Anatolia. Consequentially Bahador Khan chose to move his seat of power in 1432 from Soltaniyeh to Alexandria, the ancient capital of Kemet in eras past, and further ingratiated both himself and the Kurultai to the Mamluks by bringing them further within his government as a means of ensuring their loyalty at a time when even Mesopotamia was falling out of step with his power. Ultimately, though, these efforts were futile, and the Mamluk commander Qansuh al-Ghawri would lead a coup against the Il-Khan to depose him from power. Even with this, though, he would simply have himself named the new Il-Khan as Qansuh Khan, ruler of a strange entity known to the world as the "Mamluk Khanate" in a strange hybrid of the old Mamluk government and the former Ilkhanate's government.

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Pulled this one out of the old list of requests from genggiyen-ejen . Here we go.
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The expansions and conquests of the Great Khan may have ended with his death, but the expansion of the great Mongol Horde could not be stopped by anything so simple as the death of one man. Long after the death of the great Chinggis Khan, the Ilkhanate, one of the four primary successor states to to the original Mongol Empire, continued its expansion through Persia, Anatolia, and the Levant, but found its southward expansion stymied by the Ayubbid Caliphate. Regardless, the Mongol drive for expansion and conquest would never be quenched, and in repeated efforts they continued to push against Syria and the Levant. It would only be after a nigh-miraculous success in 1271 that the Ilkhanate would finally conquer Syria and break the back of the already fragile Ayubbids, shattering their Caliphate and allowing the Ilkhanate to push as far east as Benghasi. With the Nile under their control, the upper stretches as far as the cataracts fell within their control.

Expansion this far and this fast, though, would also prove their undoing. Continuing their efforts to expand and grow, the Ilkhanate turned south and drove against Madinah, but failed. And just as it had broken the Ayubbids, so too did the Ilkhanate break here, falling back and only barely holding control over its territory with enemies on all sides. The core of this great effort lay in four regions: Anatolia, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Kemet. Kemet in particular was a strange beast. Being so far from the core of the Ilkhanate, the local bureaucracy was allowed to largely remain in power, and in this case that was the class of slave mercenaries known as the Mamluks. The Mamluks came from many regions and were not free, but far above the average citizens and held the levers of power throughout Kemet at this time. Being allowed to retain local authority, the Mamluks were quick to recognize the rule of the Ilkhanate in exchange for their continued guarantee of power.

Of course, the Ilkhanate could only hold onto so much for so long, and soon it began to fall back from the ever-restless Persia and Anatolia. Consequentially Bahador Khan chose to move his seat of power in 1432 from Soltaniyeh to Alexandria, the ancient capital of Kemet in eras past, and further ingratiated both himself and the Kurultai to the Mamluks by bringing them further within his government as a means of ensuring their loyalty at a time when even Mesopotamia was falling out of step with his power. Ultimately, though, these efforts were futile, and the Mamluk commander Qansuh al-Ghawri would lead a coup against the Il-Khan to depose him from power. Even with this, though, he would simply have himself named the new Il-Khan as Qansuh Khan, ruler of a strange entity known to the world as the "Mamluk Khanate" in a strange hybrid of the old Mamluk government and the former Ilkhanate's government.