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Originally Posted by troung
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.
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However those were rump states. The
Mongol empire fell apart after its founder died, and each of those remaining rump states either assimilated in or were brushed aside by culturally or technologically superior adversaries. The Timerids acquired quite a few Persian characteristics and then collapsed to the Turkic and Persian peoples within, the Crimean state was an off and on Ottoman satellite, and derived much of its population and government from Tatars (Turkic peoples) not Mongols, and while the Golden Horde was one of the most pure Mongol states outside of Mongolia it was only maintained over any substantial period of time over lightly populated steppes (with a population that was largely Mongol... the non-Mongol fringes were unstable to say the least).
I stand by my assertion that if the Mongol empire had conquered the Roman Empire it would have been assimilated or destroyed within a hundred years.