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Oghul Qaimish (ᠤᠤᠭᠠᠯ ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠮᠢᠰᠢ, c. 1200s –1251) was the wife of Güyük Khan and the nominal regent of the Mongol Empire between Güyük's death in 1248 and the accession of Möngke Khan in 1251. Oghul Qaimish was born into the Merkit tribe and married Güyük in the 1220s.
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As the Mongols were a nomadic people, everyone - men, women, and young children - had to be able to ride well and use a bow for hunting. In the same vein, men and women were usually capable of doing each other's tasks since if one died, the survivor in the partnership had to carry on and look after the family and its herds. Women were responsible f...
Mongol women tended animals, collected food, cooked and processed it while men hunted. Women made cheese, butter, and dried the milk curds, and also had to look after the herds while the men were away hunting which could be several weeks at a time. Women milked the sheep, goats, and cows while only men milked mares and produced the alcoholic bevera...
Traditionally, Mongol marriages had the aim of cementing clan relationships and strengthening alliances. Indeed, it was the custom to marry outside one's clan group (exogamy) and there was a custom of abducting women from rival tribes as a means to strengthen one clan group and weaken the other. Most marriages, though, would have been designed to r...
Mongol women made felt by pounding sheep's wool. They also made material from animal skins and prepared leather. Cloth and clothing were one of the important assets of a family and were often given as gifts and as part of a bride's dowry. Men's and women's clothing was very similar, with both sexes wearing silkor cotton undergarments, trousers, thi...
The religion practised by the Mongols included elements of shamanism and shamans could be both men (bo'e) or women (iduqan). Robes worn by shamans often carried symbols such as a drum and hobby horse, representing the guardian and protector spirit of the Mongol people. Shamans were believed capable of reading signs such as the cracks in sheep's sho...
Alan Goa Alan Goa (aka Alan-qo'a) was the mythical mother of the Mongol peoples who was said to have taught her five sons that in order to thrive they must always stick together and support each other. To get this message across, she gave them a lesson in unity known as the Parable of the Arrows. Alan Goa gave each son an arrow and told him to brea...
- Mark Cartwright
30 ott 2019 · Oghul Qaimish. Oghul Qaimish (Oqol-Qaimish, r. 1248-1251), era la moglie di Guyuk Khan, e quando egli morì nel 1248. per avvelenamento, regnò come reggente.
- Mark Cartwright
22 dic 2019 · The widow-regents of chs. 6 and 7 have already attracted much interest, as their stories play out in great dramatic fashion in the most accessible sources for Mongol history. Broadbridge nuances this discussion significantly by showing how Töregene, Sorqoqtani, and Oghul-Qaimish fit within the typology of royal women laid out in chs ...
- Stefan Kamola
- 2020
Early life. Güyük received military training and served as an officer under his grandfather Genghis Khan and later his father Ögedei Khan (after the death of Genghis in 1227). He married Oghul Qaimish of the Merkit clan.
à-vis the reign of the second Mongol regent Oghul Qaimish (r. 1248–50). Finally, our attention is focused on the extensive reign of Orghina Khatun (d. 1266) in Central Asia as an example of the continuity of this practice of female rule in a Mongol khanate. All these cases show how a nomadic
Information. Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire , pp. 195 - 224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108347990.008. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2018. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
