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The History of the Mongol Conquests (Paperback)
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The History of the Mongol Conquests (Paperback)
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The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in
the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range
never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held
sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the frontiers of
Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. Surprisingly little has
been written on this vast and immensely influential empire, known
chiefly through the charismatic leaders, Chingis Khan and Kublai
Khan. J. J. Saunders's landmark book, first published in 1972, is a
carefully documented introductory history of the rise and fall of
the great Mongol empire. Saunders sets the historical stage with a
discussion of nomad groups and cultures at the dawn of the second
millennium, and then traces the rise of the Mongol conquests
through the earlier Turkish expansion into Asia between the eighth
and twelfth centuries. Beginning in the early 1200s, the Mongols
led by Chingis Khan began their insatiable assault on all the
kingdoms and peoples around them, erasing whole cities, killing
entire populations, forcing mass migrations, and permanently
changing the distribution of the world's major religions. The
Mongols were finally checked along the edges of Europe and forced
out of the Middle East by rejuvenated Muslim factions. As Saunders
concludes, one of the major legacies of the Mongol conquests was
the transfer of intellectual and scientific primacy of the Old
World from Islamic societies to Western Europe, paving the way for
the Renaissance.
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