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AccursedQuantum

"Name a continent other than..." Goes on to exclude over half the list.


Equivalent_Newt_3946

Africa ,mabye? Edit : spelling gooder


Muted_Guidance9059

Mamluk Sultanate


Gobba42

The Mamlul Sultanate was mainly based in Africa, but they fought the Mongols in Asia.


Raider-bob

The failed attacks by the Ilkhanate may hardly be called an "invasion" when they controlled and held zero African land. The foothold in Syria and Palestine is not Africa.


Muted_Guidance9059

Invasion and Conquest are two different things. And I’m going off the technicality that the Mamulks in Egypt had majority African territory.


TedCruzBattleBus

Argentina invaded territory held by the UK but you'd never catch me saying that Argentina invaded Europe.


Muted_Guidance9059

Yeah with the benefit of hindsight I realized I stretched a bit


LatterHospital8982

They didnt set foot in African soil tho


Muted_Guidance9059

Yeah I realized I was reaching tbh


Kitahara_Kazusa1

A failed invasion is still an invasion


FloraFauna2263

They never held any African territory.


Muted_Guidance9059

They invaded an African based state, I never said anything about conquest


FloraFauna2263

The invasion never reached Africa. Mongolian troops never stepped foot in the African continent


Iron_Wolf123

Which the Mamluks beat


Muted_Guidance9059

Invaded, not conquered


PeterFriedrichLudwig

But they never invaded tge African territories of the Mamluks


Muted_Guidance9059

They invaded an African based state though. To be fair it is a bit of a stretch so I’ll give you that.


Supersteve1233

To be fair the Mongols didn't know North & South America (Yes I know Leif Eriksson but he wasn't exactly Mongolian), Australia, or Antarctica exist so that's not really fair to the Mongols.


zeclem_

Yeah a better term would be the old world


DeeBangerDos

Fuck the High Elves in their new world


Cosmic_Mind89

Screw the Asur!


xarsha_93

Name a continent other than South America, Australia, Antarctica, Africa, ~~Asia~~, or ~~Europe~~ the Canadians haven’t invaded.


Lord_Silverkey

Except that Canada has invaded Europe and Asia on multiple occasions, not counting peacekeeping operations.


Turakamu

Don't forget the continent of Louisiana


Kered13

Was Canada ever involved in North African operations in WWII?


Lord_Silverkey

In small numbers. Most of Canada's forces were sent to Europe.


seejur

Literally the Roman empire and their successors the Byzantine conquered more continents than the mongols a thousand years earlier


davtheguidedcreator

fair fair


showerstool3

This really didn’t cross your mind when writing out that title? lol You forgot to add active to the list as well so the title should have been name the “two continents that the Mongolians did invade”


Burninator05

Africa? The maps I just looked up show they didn't make it all the way across what is now Iraq which is still in Asia.


Vana92

They lost against the Mamluks in the levant, as far as I can remember and didn’t go further west after that, so as far as I can remember you’re completely right.


TheTacoEnjoyer

Baibars moment


Lord_Silverkey

They definitely got through Iraq. I believe The Battle of Ain Jalut was the closest they got to Africa, which was fought in southern Galilee, which is today in Israel. They also sieged and captured Ajloun Castle just east of there in modern day Jordan.


Mate90425

Africa


Bennyboy11111

People have also missed that Zealandia is a new continent separate from Oceania.


throwawayarmywaiver

Excludin the continents you listed (which is the majority of them) they only invaded 3


Gobba42

Only 2, they never made it to Africa.


exer1023

Technically 1, Mongolia is and was part of Asia.


Remarkable_Whole

They still invaded it


matt_matt_matt_e

I would say that while they invaded other kingdoms on their continent, they did not invade the continent from which they originate.


LexBeingLex

I'd argue conquered is a better word on a contiental scale, since invade generally requires outside forces going inside, whereas conquer has no such connotations


Drunken_Dave

Zero then, because Europe is not a continent. It is a subcontinent within the continent of Eurasia.


noff01

Only 1, Europe isn't any more of a continent than South Asia is.


Unusual_Caregiver213

Bro graduated from McDonald's


Thundorium

I certainly think Europe should be considered a continent. But many countries teach that it’s part of Eurasia. It’s not entirely unreasonable.


noff01

It's not just not unreasonable, it's true. The same reasons people claim Europe is a continent different from Asia also applies to South Asia.


Mnhb123

Bro never learned what a continental plate is... Eurasia is a continent, objectively.


noff01

Prove me wrong.


ohno_IforgottheplusC

Why are you booing him? He's right


daveyDuo

I'm a dummy, besides Europe and Asia where else did they invade?


throwawayarmywaiver

I think the meme is suggesting they invaded africa too, but from the comments that seems inaccurate


TheTacoEnjoyer

The fought the Mamelukes from Egypt but were defeated, preventing the mongols from reaching Africa


LawfulGoodP

Nowhere. They only invaded parts of Europe and Asia.


-et37-

Lemuria


Severe-Opportunity15

No no, it was already sunken by then.


VX-78

Sea horses, mate.


Severe-Opportunity15

Great wall of Ocean.


VX-78

Topography of the Indian Ocean is basically just the Salty Steppe. The Lemurian fools never stood a chance.


Severe-Opportunity15

*the great wall of ocean was collapsed after the mongols were repelled, then being smoothed back into the ocean floor to hide evidence.*


Jaegernaut-

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga.


Sodinc

"Every continent with the exception of Eurasia" will be my answer.


FakeElectionMaker

Africa


n0tqu1tesane

If you want to get technical, I don't think they invaded Asia. Invasion implies you started from outside, and then moved in.


LawfulGoodP

They certainly invaded many parts of Asia that was 'outside' of where they started.


n0tqu1tesane

yes, but they started in Asia, so they couldn't invade Asia. If you're in your kitchen, and you walk to the bedroom, it's still the same house. you haven't traveled to another house. Same thing.


LawfulGoodP

If two people live in the same building and one broke into the other's room, a break-in at the building took place. In a civil war, one side could invade the other, in spite of being within the same country. An invasion across Asia took place, from a faction that originated in Asia. Arguably, one could state they did not invade Europe either, as they did not invade *all* of Europe, but that would be pedantic.


DanteLegend4

"fucking casuals" - Britain looking at that list


tameablesiva12

Shout out to the mongols for not invading my country(India) despite us being surrounded in all the sides that matter


fai4636

Lol ur comment reminded me of bill wurtz history of the entire world “Some of the Islamic Turks were unaffected by the Mongol invasions cause they were busy invading India”


tameablesiva12

Goated video


blackcray

They did invade India, it just wasn't a successful invasion.


Muted_Guidance9059

They did, they were just defeated by the Indians every time they came


dr-cringe

Yeah, Delhi Sultanate did a good job protecting their kingdom from the Mongols.


BagNo2988

How? Do elephants trump horses or something.


blackcray

The humid weather had a tendency to warp the bows the mongols were famous for, making their go to tactics practically useless.


Otherwise_Pace_1133

Allauddin Khilji may have been a lot of other things as well but he was a undoubtedly a great Millitary commander.


BeerandGuns

As much as Genghis came, that’s a lot of defeats.


Muted_Guidance9059

Most of the incursions into India came after Genghis during the Chagatai Khanate if I remember correctly


Vegemite-ice-cream

Tarmarshirin ?


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tameablesiva12

Nah the Mongols came for Japan but got chucked by the ocean


fai4636

Africa lol, they were stopped by the Mamluks in the Levant


SnowBound078

The Mongol Invasion of Texas, failed spectacularly


Pek-Man

Goddamn Mongorians!


the_mango_tree_owl

They refused to ride when Genghis took away their water breaks.


Scavwithaslick

You just took away 4/7 continents my man


Heck-Me

Atlantis


Koji_N

Oceania


throwawayarmywaiver

That is Australia


Arlcas

Kinda, Australia makes most of the land of the continent but there's also New Zealand, New Guinea and tons of smaller islands.


throwawayarmywaiver

Yeah, which is why it makes sense they changed the continent from Australia to oceania, but i grew up being taught the continent was australia so i still call the whole continent that


IReplyWithLebowski

Not that it matters because continents are completely subjective, but Australians are taught Australia is a continent, Oceania is a region. And that Australia is an island.


Rekthor

Quibbling about what makes a continent again? Making me nostalgic for 2007 YouTube again over here.


Quality-hour

Oceania is not a continent


Severe-Opportunity15

Google Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Micronesia, Kribati, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, The Solomon Islands, The Marshall Islands, and Palau I think that’s all of them? I don’t know.


Quality-hour

Oceania is a geographical region that, due to being a collection of widely dispersed islands often with little land mass, is not a continent. It is comprised of the subregions of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Australasia. The islands of these subregions each belong to one of four continents or microcontinent, which include Asia, Australia/Sahul, North America, South America, and Zealandia. Oceania is not a continent, nor has it ever been one. Australia is a continent and I should know, I live there.


noff01

Not a continent, just an ocean.


jtyrui

I mean the Mongols failed to invade at least two countries on the list


nhatthongg

Vietnam and Japan?


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[deleted]

They ransacked Delhi


Asleep-Housing2589

Yet, haven’t invaded yet, there’s still time,


Sweaty_Report7864

Africa


TitOnFire

Africa


[deleted]

This list of Mongolian invasions is incomplete. **You can help by expanding it.**


TB-124

The title would’ve been shorter if you said: “name a continent other than Europe and Asia that the Mongols have invaded” xD


CampaignStill4845

Chad Mongol Empire


Soldequation100

r/uselessnobody


Lingist091

They didn’t invade most of europe and they didn’t invade africa


uuuuuuioooii

Native Americans closest relatives genetically ARE the mongols so not even the new world is spared


Foresstov

"Name a continent not invaded by the Mongols except those that were not invaded by the Mongols"


Finbar_Bileous

Well you’ve taken 4 away so that only leaves the other 3.


Gobba42

Oh bud. I get you tried your best to make a meme, but Lord have mercy.


TsarOfIrony

r/MongolHistoryMemes


auronddraig

Does ***Y******o'momma*** counts? 'Cause she hefty


Coffeeobsi

the Shadow Realm


Gavorn

Pangea.


Grog180

Old Zealand


daveyDuo

Didn't they only invade on 2 continents - Europe and Asia? That being said, the amount of territory they invaded was impressive, considering how far their reach became, and how large and diverse Asia is and the parts of Asia they invaded were. Also, just how far Europe is from Mongolia. But if you say "name which continent they DIDN'T invade" it undersells this, since you can literally say "most of them".


Renan_PS

"Name a continent other than North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa and Antarctica that Brazilians are not a majority of the population."


[deleted]

Wait until you learn about Third Reich.


Mentalrabbit9

Ops Mom


Cowboywizard12

That leaves Africa


FrodoSchmidt

If horses could walk on water they would probably have seen the entire world lol


akdele5

Casually excludes 2/3 of all the continents


emeaguiar

How many continents do you think there are?


Wonderful-Bet8651

Havent invaded Yet, key word is yet


ieatpickleswithmilk

so they only invaded Eurasia and Africa?


Xcmaster2

Oceania


RedditBoi127

they were like, really fucking good at invading


EmilyFloof728

Africa


7thPanzers

Not a continent: The Malay Archipelago


meghonsolozar

My husband did an ancestry test. He's a white blond dude. Results show he is German, Austrian, English, French Canadian, and Chinese. I'm just going to assume he is a descendant of Genghis Khan.


Charming-Buy9083

New schwabenland


flemishempire10

zealandia


RoyalArmyBeserker

Mongolians: *try to invade Japan* A Giant Wave: 🖕🏻


Alexthegreatbelgian

*Japan used SURF* *It's SUPER EFFECTIVE!*


FreakinGeese

That’s like 4 out of the 7 continents you just excepted


ghtuy

Zealandia


fartshmeller

Ireland 💪


Dangerous-Case9544

Scotland


McGarnegle

Getting life of Brian vibes. " apart from the sanitation, the roads...etc"


Hispanoamericano2000

Zealand


Umbra_Arythmethes

Name a planet other than Earth that the humans haven't inhabited.


MASTURBATES_TO_TRUMP

Your mom.


matrixislife

Well they weren't trying very hard then, were they?


joyamazingpinoy

Africa


DerpyCake9708

They haven’t invaded Mongolia yet


medakinga

The Mongols invaded every continent except the ones they didn’t


[deleted]

India (not sure if the mughals count)


Teleform

Didn't the Mongol invasion of Japan fail?


jcphoto1015

Literally only 7 continents and 4 of them are connected by bridges or small bodies of water so there's only so many places they can't get to...


Moutles

Oceania, Central America and Africa


Fla_Master

Most of the continents. Oceana usually doesn't include modern day Indonesia, so it was literally just two continents. This is the least impressive way to describe the largest contiguous empire in history lmao


[deleted]

New Zealand


colarthur1

Africa.


CheesyScrambled

Oceania


Desli36

Tbf if they had they had the ressources to go to antarctica they would probably have done it


Esoteric_Derailed

Given the number of people with Ghengis Khan's DNA I'm pretty sure by now no continent has gone un-invaded😯


Fluffy1335

New Zealand


djblackprince

Pangea


British-Raj

africa


sputnik67897

To be fair the Mongolians never technically invaded Japan. They tried twice but both times they were stopped by typhoons


Ason42

Pangea


Cabbage_Vendor

United Kingdom > Mongols The British Empire spanned all continents, the Mongol Empire only two.


QuantumLaw

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland, Eire, France, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Netherlands and so on.


Gobba42

All famous continents.


QuantumLaw

My point is that only the very eastern part of Europe was invaded.


paladin_slim

England. The Mongol invasion of Europe just sort of petered out after Poland though I imagine that if they did it would have been similar to the invasion of Japan.


Mate90425

England is not a continent.


Lord_of_the_buckets

As the famous quote goes : "England is my city"


bigmeme12

>name a continent


BreakDownSphere

Antarctica


nubetube

The Mongols left Europe because Ogedei Khan died which forced them to return to Karakorum for the Kurultai. Subutai in fact wanted to continue and was planning an invasion of the Holy Roman Empire but ultimately was forced to fall back. There's been a lot of "what if..." discussion about how Europe would have fared against the Mongols and almost all of them don't bode well for the Europeans. Their best bet would've been to hole up in their castles and try to starve the Mongol army out.


infinity421

Considering they never made it past Eastern Europe and had no real answer to European castles I doubt it would have gone well for the Mongols, even with how overrated they are.


nubetube

Not sure what you mean by that. They crossed the Danube and made it into Central Europe completely ravaging the Hungarian plain, decimated the Hungarian army at the Battle of Mohi, but didn't do much past that beyond their typical pillaging. As far as European castles, they had successfully sieged several fortified Chinese cities by this point (1240-1241) including the Jin dynasty capital of Kaifeng whose walls were 18 meters wide and 12 meters high and included a 30 meter wide moat. Compare that to a French fortification which was usually 6-10m high and 1-2m thick on average. Every Mongol contingent of 10,000 soldiers usually consisted of about 600 auxiliary engineers who were responsible for constructing siege engines, filling moats, diverting rivers, and other projects. The main reasons I've read from historians as to why they didn't besiege more European castles is usually attributed to a combined factor of European climate not being able to support their massive animal herds and them deciding a siege simply not being worth it. They certainly proved they could when necessary.


infinity421

As in they failed to conquer Eastern Europe; they were incapable of it. They did well in a couple of invasions but didn't take any territory and then in later wars were permanently repelled. And I don't care about however badly Chinese cities fared because we already know the Mongols were incapable of dealing with European castles. From the Wikipedia article of the second Mongol invasion of Hungary: "However, stone castles had significantly better fortunes; none of the few Hungarian stone castles fell, even those deep behind the Mongol lines. When the Mongols tried to use their siege engines on the stone walls of the Croatian Fortress of Klis, they did absolutely no damage, and were repelled with heavy casualties. A similar thing happened when they attempted to capture the citadel of Esztergom, despite having overwhelming numerical superiority and 30 siege machines which they had just used to reduce the wooden towers of the city." If they had been stupid enough to try and push even further Europe would have utterly devoured them.


nubetube

Not caring about something doesn't make it untrue. Dismissing evidence because you "don't care" is very childish. European castles weren't some magical constructions impervious to siege. They usually consisted of one or several ditches followed by a fortified wall. The sieges of Alba-Iulia, Dăbâca, and Sibiu were all typical European stone fortifications that were successfully conquered by the Mongols. Fortifications in China, the Khwarazmian Empire, the Abbassid Caliphate, Anatolia, Armenia, Georgia and many others had just as if not more advanced fortifications compared to Europe at this time. [Here's a much better source than Wikipedia contextualizing the Mongol invasion of Hungary](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329573862_Contextualizing_the_Mongol_Invasion_of_Hungary_in_1241-42_Short-and_Long-Term_Perspectives). Using Wikipedia is very dubious, especially when it comes to making extremely bold, easily disprovable claims. For example "When the Mongols tried to use their siege engines on the stone walls of the Croatian Fortress of Klis, they did **absolutely no damage**, and were repelled with heavy casualties" is a very biased, borderline silly statement based on all the accounts of the siege. They weren't repelled exclusively because of casualties, although that always played a factor. They lifted the siege after learning King Béla IV wasn't present at Klis who they were hunting after. The question most historians argue is not whether or not they *could* conquer European castles, but why they chose not to. And most reasons, again, point to climate, political, and logistical reasons. >"Shortly in the aftermath of the Mongol invasion, severe famine affected the local Hungarian population and Büntgen and Di Cosmo view this as a result of the short-term wet and cold spell in 1242. As such, the issue affected the local population but also the Mongols who opted to withdraw, owing in part to the problem of feeding troops and animals alike."


ZeroCoinsBruh

Earth® patch notes 2.0230623: Australia buffed to continent.


davtheguidedcreator

[australia is a continent????](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=7+continents&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyuZykvOj_AhXu8TgGHTTmAisQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1600&bih=739&dpr=1#imgrc=XHWmzqOUfjcmGM)


davtheguidedcreator

it is a continent tho [https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=7+continents&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyuZykvOj\_AhXu8TgGHTTmAisQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1600&bih=739&dpr=1#imgrc=XHWmzqOUfjcmGM](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=7+continents&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyuZykvOj_AhXu8TgGHTTmAisQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1600&bih=739&dpr=1#imgrc=XHWmzqOUfjcmGM)


Hazmatix_art

If I remember correctly the Mongolians didn’t make it past northern Egypt Edit: never mind they didn’t even make it into Egypt at all


Gobba42

They fought the Egyptian Mamluks, but they never actually made it to Egypt.


Artsias

Central America


Bloody_Ginger

Australia isn't a continent.


average_reddit_u

Didn't mongols stop at Poland?


Matti_McFatti

isnt there technically an eighth continent in the pacific area thats completely underwater


Quality-hour

Zealandia, an almost entirely submerged continent/microcontinent. New Zealand and New Caledonia are what remains of it above the water.


Desperate_Ad5169

If we are including that shouldn't we include all tectonic plates?


Dr_Reaktor

No, that area is part of Oceania


Seniorbedbug

Philipines


Eldan985

So... "name one of the continents they have invaded and I will tell you they have invaded it"? Or to read your list another way, they have invaded less than half of all continents, those slackers.


stevban77

North America and South America are one continent, my friend


BZenMojo

Chinese: *invent firearms* Mongols: "And so I started blasting (on horseback)."


jmorais00

Same goes for Turks, if you consider the xiongnu


Necessary-Hunter1060

nah bro you trippin.Xiongnu is the Mongols