All across the world, small scale conflicts were being waged between the empires which Berengar's children had inherited. However, as Altan led his Crimean horde into the lands of his neighbors, they soon realized that even with the weapons which they had purchased from the Indian Empire, the organization, strategies, and tactics of the Crimean horde were too much to overcome.
By now, Altan's armies had marched well past the regions inhabited by the Uzbeks, and the other Turko-mongol peoples who lived in the area. Instead, they were on the borders of the Oirats, Chagatai, and the Mongolian people themselves.