{"slug": "jochi", "label": "Jochi", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochi", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186581", "qid": "Q186581", "description": "military leader; eldest son of Genghis Khan", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1207, 1236], "span_label": ["1207 CE", "1236 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "genghis-khan", "label": "Genghis Khan", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "ogedei-khan", "label": "Ögedei Khan", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "central-asia", "label": "Central Asia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "batu-khan", "label": "Batu Khan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mongol-empire", "label": "Mongol Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kievan-rus", "label": "Kievan Rus'", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kazakhstan", "label": "Kazakhstan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "subutai", "label": "Subutai", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-xia", "label": "Western Xia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "caspian-sea", "label": "Caspian Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "golden-horde", "label": "Golden Horde", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1207, "year_label": "1207 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Jochi, eldest son of Genghis Khan, subjugates people of the Siberian forest (taiga); the Uriankhai, the Oirats, the Barga, the Khakas, the Buryats, and the Tuvans, extending the northern border of the Mongol Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348494398#Asia", "title": "1207", "revid": 1348494398, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1210, "year_label": "1210 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Jochi, Mongol leader and eldest son of Genghis Khan, begins a campaign against the Kyrgyz. Meanwhile, Emperor Xiang Zong of Western Xia agrees to submit to Mongol rule, he gives his daughter, Chaka, in marriage to Genghis and pays him a tribute of camels, falcons, and textiles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321284058#Asia", "title": "1210", "revid": 1321284058, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1218, "year_label": "1218 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Jochi, eldest son of Genghis Khan, leads a successful campaign against the Kyrgyz. Meanwhile, Genghis sends a caravan with precious gifts to Muhammad II, ruler (shah) of the Khwarazmian Empire, hoping to establish trade relations. However, Inalchuq, Khwarazmian governor of Otrar, attacks the caravan, claiming that the caravan contains spies. Genghis then sends a second group of three ambassadors to Muhammad to demand the merchants be set free. Muhammad refuses, and the merchants along with one of the ambassadors are executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347207200#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1218", "revid": 1347207200, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1219, "year_label": "1219 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Genghis Khan sends a Mongol army (some 20,000 men) under his eldest son Jochi and Jebe to cross the Tian Shan mountains (\"Heavenly Mountains\") to ravage the fertile Fergana Valley, in the eastern part of the Khwarezm Empire. The Mongols suffer many losses but slip through the defensive lines and confuse the enemy who thinks this is Genghis' main force. Muhammad II dispatches his elite cavalry reserve to protect the fertile regions with force. Meanwhile, another Mongol army under his second and third sons Chagatai and Ögedei passes through the Dzungarian Gate, and immediately start laying siege to the border city of Otrar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345005371#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1219", "revid": 1345005371, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1220, "year_label": "1220 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Genghis Khan moves against the wealthy city of Urgench. He is joined by his eldest son Jochi, now conqueror of half a dozen lesser towns who attacks it from the north. Despite a stout defense, the city is taken after a 5-months siege. The Mongols have to fight for Urgench street by street, razing many houses. Jochi is given the right to loot the city for himself, but prefers to negotiate with the locals to avoid property damage. This is refused by Genghis, who removes Jochi from command and appoints Ögedei instead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360552842#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1220", "revid": 1360552842, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1223, "year_label": "1223 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Mongol leaders Subutai and Jebe receive news that Jochi, who camps north of the Caspian Sea, will not be able to provide the expected reinforcements due to Jochi's reported illness or suspected refusal to obey his father Genghis Khan's orders. Subutai sends an embassy to the Russian princes, to offer peace and perhaps attempt to break the Russian alliance with the Polovtsians. But the Mongol ambassadors are executed – a task eagerly carried out by Köten Khan's followers, by the end of April.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336497375#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1223", "revid": 1336497375, "section": "Events › Other events, by place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1224, "year_label": "1224 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The Mongol army led by Subutai and Jochi cross the steppes of modern Kazakhstan, and returns to the horde of Genghis Khan on the Irtysh River. At a great kurultai or gathering of chiefs, Subutai reports on the Western campaign. Jochi submits to Genghis and his supposed 'insubordination' (see 1220) is forgiven. As a result of the Mongol invasion in 1219–1223, Kazakhstan and Central Asia become part of the Mongol Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561506#Asia", "title": "1224", "revid": 1369561506, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1227, "year_label": "1227 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Prince Tolui, Mongol regent and youngest son of Genghis Khan, assembles a Kurultai in the homelands of Mongolia. He persuades the chieftains of the clan to carry out Genghis' wishes. Ögedei Khan receives the Great Khanate. Genghis' eldest son, Jochi, dies before him, and his lands are divided between his two sons Batu Khan and Orda Khan, who rule the Western provinces (the Golden Horde and White Horde). Genghis' second son, Chagatai Khan, inherits the former Uigur and Kara-Khanid Khanate (now called the Chagatai Khanate). Tolui receives the Mongol homelands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488499#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1227", "revid": 1367488499, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1236, "year_label": "1236 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Mongols under Batu Khan, eldest of Jochi, sweep across Central Asia. They settle in the Russian steppe, curtailing the power of the Kievan Rus', extracting tribute from their neighbors, and disrupting their relationship with the Byzantine Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361428601#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1236", "revid": 1361428601, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}]}