Their light "suicide" cavalry were called the mangudai.
This empire's military included commanders called noyans, and was made up of divisions of 10,000 soldiers called tumen. Archers in this empire introduced a thumb ring on a composite recurved bow. This force used human shields in a tactic called kharash. Their light "suicide" cavalry were called the mangudai. This empire, which lost to the Mamluks at Ain Jalut, notoriously flung the bodies of plague-infested corpses with their counterweight trebuchets, spreading the Black Death. Legendarily, this empire's forces drank the milk of the horses that they rode on. They failed to invade Japan due to kamikaze. For 10 points, name this huge land empire led by khans such as Genghis.
This empire's military included commanders called noyans, and was made up of divisions of 10,000 soldiers called tumen.
Mongol Empire [or the Mongols; or the Golden Horde; or the il-Khanate]