In the middle of the thirteenth century, while Europe was still a patchwork of feudal states, there emerged from the East a vast empire that eventually spanned the breadth of Asia. Storm from the East, and the television series which it accompanies, dramatically describes how the Mongol Empire was f...

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1. Verfasser:	Marshall, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berkeley u.a. Univ. of California Press 1993
Schlagworte:	Genghis Khan <1162-1227> Kublai Khan <1216-1294> Geschichte 1206-1370 Imperio Mongol - Historia Mongols > History, Military Mongolen
Zusammenfassung:	In the middle of the thirteenth century, while Europe was still a patchwork of feudal states, there emerged from the East a vast empire that eventually spanned the breadth of Asia. Storm from the East, and the television series which it accompanies, dramatically describes how the Mongol Empire was forged under the banner of one of the greatest generals in history - Genghis Khan - and ruled by men who, just a generation before, had been simple nomadic tribesmen It tells of some of the greatest military conquests in history, and brings to life such characters as the great Khubilai Khan who unified China and became a patron of the arts before the Empire disintegrated in the fourteenth century The scope of the Mongol conquests astounds the imagination. The Mongol armies swept out of the Eastern steppes, conquering all before them: China, Persia, Russia and eastern Europe all came under Mongol rule. Just forty years after they had crossed the River Danube, the Mongols were launching an invasion of Japan
Beschreibung:	256 S. zahlr. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0520083008