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Book SynopsisIn his prologue to The Mongol Empire, Michael Prawdin sets the stage for the last and mightiest onslaught of the nomads upon the civilized world. He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the successes of the Crusaders in A.D. 1221. But little did Europe know that two decades later, the Mongol hordes organized by Genghis Khan would turn the Middle East into a heap of ruins and spread terror throughout the West.
A work of enduring scholarship and literary excellence, The Mongol Empire is a classic on the rise and fall of the world''s largest empire. It describes the incredible ascent of the Mongol people, which, through the political and military genius of Genghis Khan, overwhelmed and subdued the nations of most of the world. It demonstrates the transformation of barbarous nomads into the most efficient rulers of their time and describes the crumbling of their vast empire and the assumption of its legacy by the formerly subjugated China and Russia.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION T O THE TRANSACTION EDITION, PROLOGUE, PART ONE-JENGHIZ KHAN, PART TWO-THE MONGOL EMPIRE, PART THREE-THE THREE REALMS, PART FOUR-TAMERLANE, PART FIVE-THE HERITAGE, EPILOGUE-THE KEY OF ASIA, GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE JENGHIZIDES, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, PRINCIPAL PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK, BIBliOGRAPHY, Index
