In my column last week, I mentioned the Mongol conquests of China and Russia which connected those two nations for the first time in history. The Mongol armies were a bit like a plague, a germ that ...
It was the stuff of legends: a Mongol ruler determined to expand his empire, an invasion of epic proportions, and a divine wind twice sent by the gods to repel the attack. The ethereal threads of ...
THE Mongol horsemen had swept westward from what is now Russia into Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany. A year later, in 1242, to European bafflement and relief, they turned round and went back again ...
London: Frontline Books / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2013. Pp. xxxiv, 236. Illus., maps, appends., notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 1848326602 The Defense of China ...
1282, with the conquest of China almost complete, Kublai Khan turns his glance towards the land of the Rising Sun and demands it bend the knee and pay tribute to his empire. The Japanese refuse, and ...
History of China: What life was like during the Mongol Yuan dynasty rule established by Khublai Khan
Khublai Khan, who Administered the Chinese portion of the Mongol empire, was fortunate to have good advisers and smart enough to listen to them. One of his advisers was his mother, Sorghaghtani Beki ...
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