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> The Mongols maintained the existing administrations wherever they submitted to them, but wherever they faced stiff resistance they wiped out the old power str
by User23 4y ago
> The Mongols maintained the existing administrations wherever they submitted to them, but wherever they faced stiff resistance they wiped out the old power structures (and much of the population at large).
This is what broke the power of the Hashishim, or Order of Assassins. The Mongols didn’t use local talent for palace guards and so on, so they couldn’t play their usual game.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> The Mongols didn’t use local talent for palace guards and so on Did the Fatimids? I thought filling military positions with captured foreign slaves was really common under Arabic rule.
- User23 4y agoGood question. I assume there was a distinction between the various foreign soldiers and the ruler’s bodyguard under the Fatimids, but I can’t say for certain.
- barry-cotter 4y agoMuslim rule generally. The Ottomans had the Janissaries. The Qajars in Persia had the Ghulam. The only one of the Muslim gunpowder empires not to use slave soldiers were the Mughals who were ethnically distinct anyway. Persians and some Arabs and Turks ruling over South Asians.
- selimthegrim 4y agoThe previous empires that the Mughals conquered used slave soldiers (Iltutmish, Khilji, Aibak, Lodis)