Genghis Khan is a name that conjures images of brutal warfare, sweeping conquests, and an empire that stretched across ...

The Mongol fleet struck by storm at sea, from the Livre des Merveilles (early 15th century) - Getty As Genghis Khan lay dying in August 1227, he commanded his heir, Ögedei, to continue the mission of ...

Subutai, known as Sübe’etei Ba’atar, stands as one of the most legendary military minds in history. As the foremost general ...

Medieval Authors on the Mongols -- The Islamic World and Inner Asian Peoples down to the Mongol Invasion -- The Mongol Westward Advance (1219-53) -- Apportioning and Governing an Empire (c. 1221-c.

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 ...

Painting scrolls on the Mongol invasion of Japan by Fukuda Taika, a 1846 copy of a 1293 work by an unknown artist, Tokyo National Museum. The Mongol fleet beat the Song but had less luck with the ...

Of all the empires that arose and thrived on the face of this earth, which were the five most powerful? And how is it even possible to select five empires from among the hundreds that have flourished ...