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Genghis Khan
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Leo de Hartog |
Genghis Khan's armies breached the Great Wall of China, captured Beijing, and crushed all resistance in Afghanistan, Persia and Southern Russia by ruthless massacres and pillage. His armies also inva… |
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Empire's twilight
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David M. Robinson |
"The rise of the Mongol empire transformed world history. Its collapse in the mid-fourteenth century had equally profound consequences. Four themes dominate this study of the late Mongol empire in No… |
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The Mongols and the Islamic world
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Peter Jackson |
"An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule. The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirt… |
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Historicizing the "Beyond"
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Katharina Schmidt,Frank Krämer,Julika Singer |
"Hardly any act of violence connects Europe and Asia like the Mongolian Invasion in the 13th century did. By 1300 the Mongols had conquered not only China, but also parts of Russia, Eastern Europe an… |
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The Tartar Khan's Englishman
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Gabriel Ronay |
"Author Gabriel Ronay discovered the existence of the Tartar Khan's English-born personal envoy, interpreter and spy in a thirteenth-century monastic chronicle. In this extraordinary biography he pie… |
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