Военная история / The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History

Издательство: Fair Winds Press
Автор: Thomas J. Craughwell
Название: The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2010
Количество страниц: 272
ISBN: 978-1-59233-398-1
Формат: pdf
Размер: 127 мб

Emerging out of the vast steppe grasslands of Central Asia in the early 1200s, the Mongols, under their ferocious leader, Genghis Khan, quickly carved out an empire that by the late thirteenth century covered almost one-sixth of the Earth’s landmass—from Eastern Europe to the eastern shore of Asia—and encompassed 110 million people. Far larger than the much more famous domains of Alexander the Great and ancient Rome, it has since been surpassed in overall size and reach only by the British Empire.
The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in the World recounts the spectacularly rapid expansion and dramatic decline of the Mongol realm, while examining its real, widespread, and enduring influence on countless communities from the Danube River to the Pacific Ocean.