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The cosmopolitanism of Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire in Mongolia

Modern Asian Studies
Karakorum, in present-day Mongolia, was the first capital of Mongol empire and has often been portrayed as the cosmopolitan city par excellence of its era. This portrayal is primarily based on the description of the city as a multicultural community in a
S. Reichert
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The entry of Bashkiria into the Mongol Empire

Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Istoriya
This article examines the process of accession of the Bashkirs to the Mongol Empire, reconstructs the course of events in the 1220-30s in the Ural-Volga region, and reveals the immediate causes of the Mongol invasion of Bashkiria.
Salavat I. Khamidullin
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The Mongol Empire – the first ‘gunpowder empire’?

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2013
AbstractThis 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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Pax Mongolica: Trade and Traders in the Mongol Empire

, 2020
Beginning in 1206 large parts of Eurasia came under the sway of the Chinggissid Mongols. In 1260 the united Mongol Empire came to an end and divided into four khanates ruled by the progenies of Chinggis Khan.
P. Kalra
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Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire

2018
The 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 its legacy

Choice Reviews Online, 1999
List 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,
null Lambton, Udo Barkmann, null Barrett, null Bira, Paul Buell, Elizabeth Endicott-West, Thomas Haining, Robert Irwin, Peter Jackson, null KIM Ho Dong, Rudi Lindner, Robert McChesney, null Melville, Junko Miyawaki, David Morgan, null Morton, Hidehiro Okada, John Smith   +17 more
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The role of the ortoq in the Mongol Empire in forming business partnerships

Central Asian Survey, 2019
This study investigates the emergence and development of business partnerships established by the Mongols and their merchant partners, ortoqs, in the Middle Ages.
E. Enkhbold
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Disintegration of the Mongol Empire

2008
Kublai 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, 1937
The 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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Subutai: Sorting Fact from Fiction Surrounding the Mongol Empire’s Greatest General (With Translations of Subutai’s Two Biographies in the Yuan Shi)

, 2018
Subutai [Sube’etei], often referred to as the greatest of the Mongol Empire’s generals, has increasingly become a topic of popular interest. However, the literature about him continues to rely on secondary sources so that popular and scholarly work alike
Stephen Pow, Jing Liao
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