The Jirchen Dynasty of Mongolia

The Jirchen emperors of the JIN dynasty employed numerous Han Chinese officials and ministers to advise them as to how best govern their new realm. They quickly mastered the art of keeping the peoples of the steppes atomized and forever in conflict with one another. Even those groups that were able to attract some modicum of regional power, for instance the kipchok or the kara kitan for instance, were only able to do so fleetingly. Thus it was that life in the 12th century Mongolia was characterized by its uncertainty, discord, violence, and chaos. The JIN dynasty's stoking of these already endemic fissures of conflict had inflamed to a