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Did Mongol women fight in armies? [Historians] have indeed found evidence that more than we thought of the Mongol armed forces were, in fact, women—maybe as much as 20 percent.
But scholars increasingly believe Mongol warrior women were there, racing across the hilly grasslands of the Eurasian steppe armed with a drawn bow, their arrows ready to fly at any...
Women in the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE) shared the daily chores and hardships of steppe life with men and were largely responsible for tending animals, setting up camps, childrearing, producing food and cooking it.
While the Chinese were binding women’s feet, Mongol women were riding horseback, fighting in battles, tending their herds and influencing their men on important decisions for the Mongolian Empire. Still, while women were highly valued participants in Mongol society, they still held less rank than their fathers, husbands and brothers.
Khutulun’s abilities led her to wrestle anyone who dared. For some reason, she never lost a fight. Since she was Mongol royalty, Khutulun had many aspiring men wanting her hand in marriage.
Traditionally among the Mongols, women managed the affairs at home, while men went off to herd, hunt or fight. As the war campaigns extended farther away and grew ever longer during the 13th century, women expanded their control and assumed public office as rulers.
Mongol women were taught from a young age how to ride a horse proficiently (very important in a nomadic society) and taught to fight with a bow and arrow. The main weapon in a Mongol army was the bow and often women did fight alongside their men as cavalry archers.
Most histories about the Mongol Empire focus on male warriors, but the story of Khutulun, the warrior princess, is one that more people need to know. Imagine a woman so formidable that she turned her suitors into wrestlers, challenging them to defeat her in combat as a condition of marriage.
The Mongol armies did not simply pass through or conquer and with-draw from the territories they defeated, as other nomadic peoples such as the Huns had done before them. Instead, they came to stay, and their women and children followed immediately after the army to join them and settle in the places where the military had succeeded. As these women
The Mongol armies did not simply pass through or conquer and withdraw from the territories they defeated, as other nomadic peoples such as the Huns had done before them. Instead, they came to stay, and their women and children followed immediately after the army to join them and settle in the places where the military had succeeded.