Considers the Mongols as law givers, economists, diplomats, builders and promoters of religious tolerance, whose legacy remains palpable now across the 2 million square miles of Eurasia that they dominated for two centuries. Not to say that there weren’t horrors too, of course.
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
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£26.95
Edition:Hardback978067424421430/04/2021
Categories: 03. Spring Books 2021: Historical, History, Spring Books 2021
Tag: Ancient history
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