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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 Warehousing System and the Great Qan’s Financial Geography in the Mongol Empire

The Korean Association for Mongolian Studies
This study explores when and how the warehousing system 倉庫制 in the Mongol Empire (1206~1370) had been established, developed, and administered. The warehouse, as an administrative service to accumulate and redistribute treasures, shows the relationship ...
Paehwan Seol
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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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Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire

Inner Asia, 2005
AbstractI 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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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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The Mongol Empire and its Legacy

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 Decline and Fall of the Mongol Empire

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2009
AbstractWhen historians explain the end of empires, they often follow a ‘decline and fall’ paradigm which owes its fame to Edward Gibbon's great book on the Roman Empire. Recent historians of Late Antiquity, however, have tended to doubt its validity. This article considers the reasons for the end of the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth ...
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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. This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes,
Buell, Paul D, Fiaschetti, Francesca
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The Mongol Empire: a review article

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1981
The publication of a new history of medieval Central Asia, over half of which is concerned with the empire of the Chingizid Mongols, provides an opportunity for a survey of a number of books on that subject that have appeared during the past decade. Professor Kwanten's book is, more or less avowedly, an attempt to replace Rene Grousset'sL'empire des ...
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Islamization in the Mongol Empire

2009
Understanding 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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