Talk:Crucible/@comment-176.88.140.35-20191003171352

About this: ''The Kereyids are depicted as Turks and the Uighurs as Mongols. In reality they would be reversed: the Kereyids (Keraites) were a Mongol tribe while the Uighurs were (and are) a Turkic-speaking people.''

Actually it is not wrong to make Keraits Turkic. The leader of the names of the Kereit actually suggest they were Turkic. Ughurs were Turkic yeah you are right about that. Apart from these Naimans are also Turkic. Mergits are Mongolified but originally Turkic.

So keraits, mergits naimans the three out of 5 founding tribes of Mongol Empire were somewhat Turkic. The other two were Khamag Mongol and Tatars were Mongolic. Dont confuse tatars with the later on Tatars, it is just Russians spoiling everything. Those tatars are kipchak Turks.