Mongol Empire administration (historically)

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The Mongol Empire administration was the governing apparatus of the vast Mongol state that managed its multiethnic territories through a combination of military hierarchy, regional governors, and codified laws like the Yassa.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf government system
imperial administration
administrativeLanguage Arabic (in Islamic regions)
Chinese
Persian
Turkic languages
Uighur script Mongolian
aimedAt ensuring rapid military mobilization
maintaining control over multiethnic territories
maximizing tribute and tax revenue
securing trade routes across Eurasia
appliesTo Mongol Empire
basedOn Yassa legal code (attributed)
surface form: Chinggisid law
characterizedBy census-based taxation
centralized authority of the Great Khan
merit-based promotion
military hierarchy
multiethnic bureaucracy
relay-post communication system
religious tolerance
developedUnder Kublai Khan
Möngke Khan
Ögedei Khan
dividedInto districts
military-tumens as territorial units
provinces
ulus
economicBasis customs duties on trade
poll taxes in some subject areas
tax farming in some regions
tribute
foundedBy Genghis Khan
governedBy Great Khan
influenced Chagatai Khanate
surface form: Chagatai Khanate administration

Golden Horde administration
Ilkhanate administration
Ming dynasty frontier administration
Russian princely administration
Yuan dynasty administration
later Central Asian khanates
influencedBy Chinese bureaucratic practices
Perso-Islamic administrative traditions
Uighur scribal culture
steppe nomadic political traditions
policy collective responsibility within units
harsh penalties for rebellion
promotion of long-distance trade
protection of merchants
religious freedom for subject peoples
standardization of weights and measures in some regions
tax exemptions for religious institutions
use of passports (paiza) for officials and merchants
reliedOn census registers
decimal military structure
hostage-taking of local elites
local collaborators
steppe military organization
tribute collection
timePeriod 13th century
14th century
usedCommunicationSystem yam relay network
usedDocument Royal decree
surface form: jarliq (imperial decree)

paiza tablet
usedInstitution darughachi system
imperial secretariat
Kurultai of 1229
surface form: kurultai

ordu (imperial camp)
yam system
usedLegalCode Yassa
usedOffice basqaq
beg
chancellor
chief judge (qadi in Islamic regions)
darughachi
noyan
tamgha-collector
vizier

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Classical Mongolian script usedBy Mongol Empire administration (historically)
Yassa legal code (attributed) associatedWith Mongol Empire administration (historically)
this entity surface form: Mongol imperial administration