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The Empire of Tamerlane as an Adaptation of the Mongol Empire: An answer to David Morgan, “The Empire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-Run of the Mongol State?”

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2016
AbstractI write this article in the spirit of the Persian poetic tradition, in which an answer to an earlier work takes off from the original and charts its own course. I will suggest that Tamerlane's recreation of the Mongol Empire was symbolic, and was part of his successful creation of a regional state which was at once Turco-Mongolian and Perso ...
B. Manz
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Formation and Changes of Uluses in the Mongol Empire

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2019
AbstractUlus is a key concept for understanding the Mongol Empire; the Mongols called the empire they had created the ‘Mongol Ulus’ or the ‘Yeke (= Great) Mongol Ulus.’ It was a single huge ulus containing within itself a large number of multilayered smaller uluses. The sizes of these uluses differed. The three large western uluses of Chaghadai, Jochi,
Hodong Kim
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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. The four khanates were the Yuan (centered at China), the Ilkhanate (Middle East), the Golden Horde (Russia and the Caucasus), and the Chaghadaids
P. Kalra
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Exchange of Alcohol Culture during the Mongol Empire

The Korean Association for Mongolian Studies, 2023
This study examines the exchange and influence of alcohol, often hailed as the greatest gift bestowed upon humanity, as it traversed the Eurasian continent from east to west and vice versa.
Kyongna Kim, Hojun Jeong
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A secular empire? Estates, nom, and religions in the Mongol empire

Modern Asian Studies, 2022
Recent work in religious studies has emphasized how European colonial empires used the defining and constructing of religions and secularism as tools of rule.
C. Atwood
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Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire

, 2022
Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of the enigmatic and controversial King Gongmin of Goryeo, Wang Gi, as he navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, including the collapse of the Mongol Empire and the rise of ...
D. Robinson
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EMPIRIC RISK FIGURES IN MONGOLISM

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1950
Knowledge of the etiology of mongolism is still deficient. The main point of controversy seems to be whether genetic factors have any significance. Penrose1and Hanhart2are of the opinion that they do. Benda3denies that heredity has anything to do with mongolism. We are of the opinion that genotypic factors, inherent in the embryo, play some yet obscure
J. A. Book, Sheldon C. Reed
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Samalas and the Fall of the Mongol Empire:  A volcanic eruption’s influence on the dissolution of history’s largest contiguous empire

, 2021
Climate responses to major tropical volcanic eruptions bring about complex social effects with lasting historical consequences. Based on several historical episodes, we establish an argument that the weather-altering eruption of Samalas (1257), which ...
Z. Kern, Stephen Pow, Z. Pinke, L. Ferenczi   +3 more
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Chinggis Khan Defeated: Plano Carpini, Jūzjānī and the Symbolic Origins of the Mongol Empire

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2021
This article aims to clarify an obscure passage in Plano Carpini's text, and subsequently in C. de Bridia's one, referring to a crushing defeat of Chinggis Khan, which has so far not been identified with certainty. The record of such a defeat is found in
S. Berger
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Disenchanting Heaven: Interfaith Debate, Sacral Kingship, and Conversion to Islam in the Mongol Empire, 1260–1335*

, 2021
Historians examine the Mongol practice of holding interfaith court debates either with regard to the efforts of religious representatives to convert the khans, or as emblematic of the Mongols’ religious pluralism.
J. Brack
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