Most large empires that still exist as a country:
For Example:
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- England
- Russia
- Spain
- Iran
- The Umayyad Caliphate (Divided into independent arabian countries)
- China
- France
- Japan
- Turkey
- Ect.
Are still very major world players, are both heard of all the time (i.e. in the news and such) and have a very big hand in world economics, war, the UN and so on, even if said country has been conquered since having been an empire.
Mongolia, however, is almost silent on a global scale, despite having been the second largest (by land area) empire ever.
What caused this decline in Mongolia's influence over world events?
Edit: Actually if you look at the first 20 or so of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires, Mongolia is the only one that isn't still a large influence.
All those other countries have large populations and economies and many are strategically placed.
Mongolia has a population of three million, a GDP of $13 Billion and it's between two much larger countries, and isn't really strategically placed.
The smallest out of the others have oil at least, and are strategically placed in the Middle east. They've got nothing to influence anybody.
I'd like to challenge your supposition that the others still exist. Persia is not Iran though you can trace some things through. And the Caliphate has changed many times over the years. Mongolia and the Mongol Empire are not exactly the same thing either. The Mongol empire created infrastructure in China that echos today. It's the through lines that are interesting. But I think you'll find if you dig into the history of the break up of the Mongol Empire you'll find influences on many other states and peoples today. History is awesome.
Mongolian rulers often adopted the culture and customs of the people they conquered. Although they did influence many cultures and their destruction many people and places and founding of new kingdoms eventually many faced internal division and civil war. Let's take Kublai Khan as an example. He continued on in conquest, but he writes Chinese poetry, establishes his capital in Beijing, and within 50 years of his death the yuan dynasty falls. This is not to say they did not have influence, Beijing is still the capital today (although it did move in subsequent dynasties).
Another thing you are neglecting is the timeline. England's empire only broke up in the late 1940's and 50's (think india and africa) Mongolia on the other hand is much older. The Mongolian legacy can still be discovered in many places, but was no longer the hegemon it was after 1400.
So you've gotten quite a few responses so I'll just chime in with a small bit on why the Mongols dissolved - Temujin, or Genghis Khan, was able to unify the various Mongol tribes into a unified force, which, prior to him, had never happened to a major extent. It was this unification of the various clans across the Eurasian steppe that gave the Mongols their power, and so you can imagine the fallout following Temujin's death. After came a succession of other Mongol rulers of the Mongolian Empire, ending with Khubilai - after his death, the Mongol Empire essentially dissolved into four individual khanates - whilst they, for various temporary periods, had good relations with each other, they never coalesced again into the single entity that was the Mongolian Empire.