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However their organization was exceptional. My vote is for the Mongols, because militarily their ability to perform on the battlefield (the combination of discipline and control) was pretty much unmatched.
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Just pointed that out to make the point that the rise of the Mongols was part of a larger story of steppe nomads.
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However they were incapable of constructing a lasting empire because their society was a loosely clan based structure that occasionally came together around one man.Rome would have been smashed on the battlefield, however within a man's lifetime whatever the Mongols had erected in Rome's place would crumble.
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The Golden Horde (Mongol state in Russia) lasted almost three hundred years - its successor states lasted even longer (under the rule of descendants of Jochi the first son of Genghis Khan). The Khanate of Crimea fell only in 1771.