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debaser, I think you're confusing military with cultural domination. With the possible exception of the Chinese, the Mongols left the cultures alone when they invaded.
The all-time masters of domination, in my opinion, were the Romans who basically assimilated (or tried to) every culture that they defeated on the battlefield. They basically just expanded their pantheon of gods to include whatever local ones were around and accepted the newly-defeated into the fold. Then they made them economically dependent and wore away at the cultural edifices that way.
The Mongols were a bunch of highly mobile archers that basically swept back and forth across Asia. The fact that Russia isn't significantly Mongol-influenced despite being ruled by the Mongols for 300 or so years basically disproves your entire point.
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