Mongols III

1368-1635 CE

From 1368 to 1635 CE, the Mongols discovered that empires end but peoples endure — driven from China by the Ming, the Yuan remnants fractured into Oirats and Eastern Mongols warring among themselves, their khans dreaming of Genghis while ruling sheep instead of nations. Dayan Khan briefly reunited the steppe; Altan Khan brought Tibetan Buddhism to replace the old shamanism. Then the Manchus rose, and the conquerors' descendants faced conquest themselves.