Mongols, especially in the city, consume pork everyday. It is not consumed as a meat, but it is a part of something that people love. Sausages and salami contain pork fat. According to National Statistical Office, Mongolia has 31,489 pigs.

What To Eat in Mongolia

• Khuushur. Pronounced horshure, Khuushur are fried pastries that are traditionally filled with mutton or goat meat.
• Mutton Kebabs. Keep an eye out for small food stalls in Ulaanbaatar selling mutton kebabs, probably the closest you’ll come to Mongolian BBQ.
• Qurut.
• Orom.
• Airag.
• Five Fingers.
• Buuz.

What to eat & drink in Mongolia? Top 10 Most Popular Mongolian foods & beverages

• Savory Pastry. Khuushuur. Mongolia.
• Noodle Dish. Tsuivan. Mongolia.
• Soup. Bantan. Mongolia.
• Dumplings. Bansh. Mongolia. Asia.
• Goat Dish. Boodog. Mongolia. Asia.
• Meat Dish. Borts. Mongolia. Asia.
• Dairy Beverage. Kumis. Mongolia. Asia.
• Dumplings. Buuz. Mongolia. Asia.

Whatever vegetables the Mongols gathered on their journeys also went into soups and stews. Usually, they could find wild onions and garlic, but tubers, roots, seeds and berries also went into the stewpot.

Most popular was Chinese rice wine and Turkestani grape wine. Genghis Khan was first presented grape wine in 1204 but he dismissed it as dangerously strong. Drunkenness was common at festivals and gatherings. Singing and dancing were also common after the consumption of alcohol.

The Mongols didn’t wash much of anything. It was common practice for the Mongols to cover their outer clothing in fat and grease to make them water and windproof; if they were to wash their clothes, it would have stripped that protective layer. The Mongols did have other cleansing practices, however.

The people in the old Mongol Empire never washed themselves because of a prevalent superstition of the time. They never washed themselves because they thought that it would result in the water getting polluted. This pollution, according to them, would make the dragons that controlled the water cycle angry.

Take a bath. Mongols refused to wash because they believed that very powerful spirits lived in the rivers and streams, and if they polluted the water by bathing in it, it would offend the spirits.

the reason the Mongols didn’t attack Mecca is they ran out of time. given enough time and resources the Mongols would have likely attacked Mecca and Iceland as well. you are talking about a group who were among history’s worst imperialist aggressors.

Subutai returned to Mongolia from the Song campaign in 1248 and spent the remainder of his life at his home in the vicinity of the Tuul River (near modern Ulaanbaatar), dying there at the age of 72. A folk legend claimed that Subutai wished to die by his son Uriyangkhadai by the banks of the Danube river.

1. Napoleon Bonaparte. Yes, you might have guessed by now, but the number one spot belongs to l’Empereur. Napoleon is so far ahead of the normal distribution curve created by the data for these 6,000-plus generals, it’s not even close.

The correct name is tatars and there is no difference, they and mongolians were one of many tribes living in the same stepes. This is just a different name given to the same population.

Alauddin sent an army commanded by his brother Ulugh Khan and the general Zafar Khan, and this army comprehensively defeated the Mongols, with the capture of 20,000 prisoners, who were put to death.

p>In 1260, the Mamluk sultan Baibars defeated the Mongol Il-Khans at the Battle of Ain Jalut, where David reportedly killed Goliath in northern Palestine, and went on to destroy many of the Mongol strongholds on the Syrian coast.