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Fiscal Reforms and Taxation under Ögedei and Möngke (1229–1259)

Fiscal Reforms and Taxation under Ögedei and Möngke (1229–1259)

  1. Ögedei elected Great Khan at kurultai

    Labels: gedei Khan, Kurultai

  2. Yelü Chucai leads North China tax reforms

    Labels: Yel Chucai, North China

  3. Ögedei establishes empire-wide yam postal stations

    Labels: Yam system, gedei Khan

  4. Shigi Qutuqu appointed chief official in North China

    Labels: Shigi Qutuqu, North China

  6. Ögedei’s reforms curb unauthorized extraction and privileges

    Labels: gedei Khan, Paiza regulation

  7. Yelü Chucai dies, weakening Chinese-style fiscal management

    Labels: Yel Chucai

  8. Möngke elected Great Khan, begins administrative tightening

    Labels: M ngke, Central administration

  9. Möngke orders empire-wide census for taxation

    Labels: Empire-wide census, M ngke

  10. Department of Monetary Affairs established to control over-issue

    Labels: Department of, M ngke

  11. Arghun Aqa begins census and new taxation in Khorasan

    Labels: Arghun Aqa, Khorasan

  12. Möngke decrees Arghun Aqa’s Persian census implementation

    Labels: Arghun Aqa, Persia census

  13. Novgorod uprising against census and taxation

    Labels: Novgorod uprising

  14. Novgorod compelled to accept census and tax regime

    Labels: Alexander Nevsky, Novgorod

  15. Census reaches completion with counting of Novgorod

    Labels: Novgorod census, Empire-wide census

  16. Death of Möngke ends reform phase at the center

    Labels: M ngke, Succession crisis