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Pow concluded that there were strong similarities of structure and purpose with Jack Weatherford's 2004 book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. [12] Francis P. Sempa praised Favereau's "nuanced and comprehensive history" which, unusually, presented the Mongol Empire as "administratively complex". [13]
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In fact, the author points out that Mongols were quite offended by such a label: they vanquished Tatars in several campaigns around 1206, after which the Tartars ceased to exist as an independent ethnic group. The report gives a narrative of his journey, what he had learned about Mongol history, as well as Mongol customs of the time.
The common name of the work as it is referred to today is The Secret History of the Mongols, corresponding to the edited work compiled in the late 1300s with the Chinese title Secret History of the Yuan (元秘史; Yuán mìshǐ) and the Mongolian title Mongɣol-un niɣuča tobčiyan, re-transcribed from Chinese (忙豁侖紐察脫卜察安 ...
The Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh was one of the grandest projects of the Ilkhanate period, [6] "not just a lavishly illustrated book, but a vehicle to justify Mongol hegemony over Iran". [7] The text was initially commissioned by Il-Khan Ghazan, who was anxious for the Mongols to retain a memory of their nomadic roots, now that they had become settled ...
The Mongol Invasion is a trilogy of historical novels by Soviet writer Vasily Yan that explores the Mongol conquests, including the Mongol conquest of Central Asia and their Western campaign, as well as the resistance of the peoples living in Central Asia and Eastern Europe during the early 13th century. [1]
ᠲᠣᠪᠴᠢ, summary of the Khans' treasure) is a national chronicle of the Mongols written by Saghang Sechen in 1662. [1] The Erdeniin Tobchi is commonly called The Chronicles of Sagang Sechen. [2] A first translation into a western language (German) was published by the Moravian missionary Isaac Jacob Schmidt in 1829. [3]
Ögedei Khan, second Khagan of the Mongol Empire, dies aged 55. 1243: Zhenjin, second son of Kublai Khan and later founder of the Yuan dynasty, is born. 1246: 24 August: Güyük Khan, eldest son of Ögedei Khan and grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes third Khagan of the Mongol Empire. 1248: 20 April: Güyük Khan, third Khagan of the Mongol ...