Description

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.

Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.

Crown (Mar 22, 2005)

9780609809648

Paperback

352 pages | 132 x 200 mm | 358 g | United Kingdom | English

Genre

Biography
History

Subject

Biography & Autobiography / Historical
History / Asia / General
Mongols
Mongols/ History
Mongols/ Kings And Rulers/ Biography