Did the Mongol Empire fall due to sibling rivalry?

I don't know much about how Mongol rule was overthrown on the western end of the empire, but in China, beginning in the mid-14th century and culminating in the ..... the major military powers they bordered fighting each other instead of the steppe nomads, but Genghis Khan had the skill to push that 'luck' as far as he did. read more

Genghis Khan's sons actually got along fairly well, and acknowledged the supremacy of Genghis's son, Ogedei; it was the descendants of those sons who fractured the empire. So it wasn't so much sibling rivalry as it was interfamily rivalry. The breakup of the Mongol Empire into constituent hordes was probably inevitable, though. read more

in 1260 the Mongol Empire split into four groups called khanates. These four khanates were the Yuan Dynasty based in China, the Golden Horde in Russia/Pontic Steppes, the Ilkhanate in Persia/Middle East, and the Changhatai in Central Asia. read more

When historians explain the end of empires, they often follow a ‘decline and fall’ paradigm which owes its fame to Edward Gibbon's great book on the Roman Empire. Recent historians of Late Antiquity, however, have tended to doubt its validity. read more