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2016
Covering the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire, this essential reference presents the figures, places, and events that led this once-beleaguered region to rise up to become the largest contiguous empire in history. In the 13th century, Chinggis Khan rose to power, leading an empire of a million people and defeating surrounding regions with much ...
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Covering the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire, this essential reference presents the figures, places, and events that led this once-beleaguered region to rise up to become the largest contiguous empire in history. In the 13th century, Chinggis Khan rose to power, leading an empire of a million people and defeating surrounding regions with much ...
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Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire
2018The Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire examines the history of the Mongol Empire, the pre-imperial era of Mongolian history that preceded it, and the various Mongol successor states that continued to dominate Eurasia long after the breakdown of Mongol unity.
Buell, Paul D, Fiaschetti, Francesca
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The Mongol Empire and the Unification of Eurasia
2021Abstract The Mongolian polity was the greatest pre-industrial empire, and second in the world history after the British Empire. It was established by the out-of-nowhere people of pastoral nomads. Nevertheless, the Mongolian Empire has played a great role in the world.
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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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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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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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Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire
Inner Asia, 2005AbstractI think that every time I open Christopher Atwood’s new Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, I learn something new.While this could be taken as an indication of my ignorance of things Mongolian, I prefer to think of it as a testament to the depth and breadth of Atwood’s work and ability that the Encyclopedia represents.
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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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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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