[jltsiren]

The Mongol Empire was not a single ethnic group. The top leaders were ethnic Mongols (much in the same way as Europe used to be a family business), but the troops were mostly from conquered peoples. I would assume that the field army was mostly Turkic, as Turkic peoples were more numerous than Mongolic peoples and their societies and styles of warfare were similar.

[mrcheesebreeze]

also they splintered into multiple khanates early on with the great khans only having some respect rather than the ability to stop the infighting.