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The Mongol Empire – the first ‘gunpowder empire’?
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2013AbstractThis article uses Chinese sources to argue that a range of gunpowder weapons was already in use in China during the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, earlier than previously thought. ‘True firearms’, that is cannon or guns firing solid projectiles, had quite probably been developed by at least as early as 1200ce.
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Dominicans in the Mongol Empire
Blackfriars, 1937The story of the gallant attempt of the later Middle Ages to win Asia for the Church is so often passed over with the scantiest reference, even by Catholic historians, that it is almost unknown. It covered more than a century; a century whose short opening years of high hopes were followed by long dreary ones of disappointment, persecution and ...
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Islamization in the Mongol Empire
2009Understanding the historical process of Islamization in the Mongol-ruled world, and amongst the Mongols themselves, is complicated by the nature of the sources, often themselves religious in their inspiration, through which we see the effects of that process, and even more so by the assumptions we bring to the issue of religious conversion and how it ...
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Disintegration of the Mongol Empire
2008Kublai Khan (ruled 1260–1294) was probably the last, true supreme khan of the Mongol domain. A successful warrior and administrator, he led the Mongols in the conquest of China and effectively administered the empire’s military, political and diplomatic affairs.
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The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
1999List of Maps and Figure List of Abbreviations Notes on Dates and Transliterations List of Contributors Introduction Early History of the Mongol Empire What the Partridge Told the Eagle: A Neglected Arabic Source on Chinggis Khan and the Early History of the Mongols, Robert G. Irwin From Ulus to Khanate: The Making of the Mongol States, c. 1220-c. 1290,
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Daily Life in the Mongol Empire
2006The Mongol Empire comes to life in this vivid account of the lives of ordinary people who lived under the rule of Ghengis Khan. The book allows the reader to enjoy traditional Mongol folktales and experience life in a yurt, the tent in which the nomadic Mongols lived.
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