{"product_id":"the-mongol-empire-an-enthralling-guide-to-the-unprecedented-expansion-cultural-exchange-and-legacy-of-the-mongol-conquests-asia","title":"The Mongol Empire: An Enthralling Guide to the Unprecedented Expansion, Cultural Exchange, and Legacy of the Mongol Conquests (Asia)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the steppes of Mongolia to the plains of Hungary and the heart of Beijing. The story of a herding boy who became the most feared man in history and the empire he built that briefly ruled most of the known world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the year 1206, a tribal leader named Temüjin, a man who had survived captivity, hunger, and the murder of his father, stood before an assembly of chiefs on the Mongolian steppe and was named Genghis Khan, universal ruler. Within twenty-five years, his armies had crushed the empires of Central Asia. Within eighty years, his grandsons ruled from the Pacific to the eastern edge of Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the largest contiguous land empire the world had ever seen, and a generation of historians is still arguing about whether its existence was a catastrophe, a renaissance, or both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book takes you inside that story. Inside the felt tents of the steppe. Inside the burning libraries of Baghdad. Inside the silk markets of the Yuan. Inside the saddle of a Mongol bowman who could shoot accurately at full gallop from either side of his horse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside, you'll discover:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Rise of Genghis Khan:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Temüjin's early years of captivity, hunger, and exile, the kidnapping of his wife Borte, the Baljuna Covenant, and the path that ended with a tribal boy becoming universal ruler in 1206\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Mongol Way of War:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Composite bows, decimal army units, feigned retreats, siege engineers absorbed from China, and the terror tactics that brought down walls before the first arrow flew\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Destruction of Khwarazm and the Conquest of China:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e How Mongol armies erased empires that had stood for centuries, including Khwarazm, Western Xia, and the Jin dynasty, in a single generation, and the rivers of refugees that fled west ahead of them\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Invasion of Europe:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The campaigns of Batu and Subutai across the Volga, the sack of Kiev, Legnica in Poland, the Battle of Mohi in Hungary, and the death of Ogedei Khan in 1241 that may have saved the rest of Europe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Conquest of the Middle East:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Hulagu's army of 120,000 men, the fall of the Assassins, and the siege and sack of Baghdad in 1258 that ended five hundred years of the Abbasid Caliphate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Pax Mongolica:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Why the bloodiest century in medieval history was also the century that made the Silk Road safe, and how plague, paper money, gunpowder, and ideas all rode the same roads east and west\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKublai Khan and the Yuan Dynasty:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e How Genghis's grandson conquered Song China, moved the capital to Dadu (modern Beijing), and built a court that drew the Italian traveler Marco Polo and inspired his famous account of the East\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Decline and Fall:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate, the Chagatai Khanate, and the Yuan, four successor states, four religions, four civilizations the Mongols left behind, and the slow unraveling that followed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd much, much more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether you're drawn to military history, the lives of conquerors, the long arc of Eurasian civilization, or the question of how a single family from the steppe rewrote the map of the medieval world, this book gives you the full story: clear, vivid, and unflinching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStep into the saddle. 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