The first mention of Chormaqan was during the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian empire in 1219-1221. At one point in 1221, Genghis Khan’s sons, Jochi, Chaghatai, and Ogedei, after sacking the city of Urgench, failed to set aside a portion of the plunder for their father. This grea...
By 1220, the Mongol force had decimated the towns and cities of the Kwarazmian Empire, and the empire itself was no more. Map of the Khwarazmian Empire in 1215, via Wikimedia Commons To ensure that this never happened again, Genghis split his empire into two parts: Genghis returned east...