The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13 ...

of the Great Khan Gtiytik himself, taxes amounting to
between l/30th and l/10th ad valorem, were imposed on
virtually everything movable and immovable and a heavy
head tax of 60 silver drama was collected from males .
•They appointed guards for the interior of the country"
(KC p. 190; Mur. p. 75). The capture and lei 2,1 ing of
the disobedient continued until finally Iwane C'ixis5varel —
Jaleli submitted: " Iwane went and met Chaghatai who received
him with honor and appointed guards for the country.
"When they had secured the entire land in this fashion,
they divided it among the four rulers (noyins) as well as
(•included in the division) all the erist ist ay's (dukes) . their
incomes and taxes which they took and sent. In this way
the country began to be pacified, gradually" (KC p. 191;
Mur. p. 76;.
The subsequent chronology here seems to be somewhat
confused. The KC next describes the campaign against
Ghiyath al-Din, adding: "while the queen was sending
her son [to the Mongols], . .harassed by the fighting [and
after the capture of Konya] , the sultan requested peace
and promised to pay heavy and great taxes, and giving many
gifts, huge gems, pearls, he calmed them down and requested
guards. And for a certain time they would have no sultan
until the best was chosen" (KC pp. 194.95; Mur. pp. 77-78).
1 JAP III p. 620; CAMA pp. 365-66; VT pp. 88,91. KG's
information is found in his chp. 44: "As soon as Khan
GUyiik took control of the great kingdom of the T'aT'ar
army in their own land, he forthwith sent out tax-collectors
to his troops in various lands and regions which they had
subdued, to take 1/1 Oth (tasanord) of all the military
property as well as taxes from the districts and kingdoms
conquered by them: from the Persians, TaSika, Armenians,
Georgians, Albanians, and from all peoples under them"
(KG pp. 311-12). The chiefs of the tax-collectors were
Arghun and Buqa, the latter even confiscating goods from
a terrified Mongol nobility: "Yet no one dared say anything
to him, for he had assembled brigands from among the Persians
and Taciks who mercilessly performed deeds of cruelty and
were especially inimical toward the Christians.
"Therefore they provoked him against the pious prince
Hasan Jalal. [Buqa] seized him in the great court, before
all the nobles and subjected him to numerous punishments.
He demolished [Hasan's] inaccessible fortresses: the one
called in Persian Xoyaxana, Bed, Ciranak'ar and his other
fortresses. And they so levelled them that not even a
trace appeared that anything had ever been built there.
Taking much gold and silver from [Hasan] they -barely spared
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