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In 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.Maurice Collis in__Time and Tide__said of__The Mongol Empire__: "It has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting.... The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the co

Who reads The Mongol Empire : Its Rise and Legacy?

Author

Michael Prawdin; with a new introduction by Gerard Chaliand

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315133201

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Computer Science, Asian History

Rating

4.04 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14