The Mongol Empire embodied all of those tensions, turning them into the second-largest kingdom of all time. At its peak ... proved to be one of history’s greatest leaders.

Despite their extraordinary geopolitical success – the Mongol Empire stretched across Asia from China to Europe at its greatest extent in the 13th century CE – for many people their name is ...

Favereau, a historian at Paris Nanterre University, tells the story of the Golden Horde, which started in the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire and, following its breakup, became an ...

Genghis Khan was a 13th-century warrior in central Asia who founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched from ... Mongols," was written anonymously (as its name suggests) sometime after Genghis ...

Begun when the Khwārezm Shah murdered a trade delegation from the Mongol Empire ... The Mongolian Empire spanned between southeast Asia and eastern Europe at its greatest extent, and encompassed an ...

China was never ruled by outside powers until then. The Arab Empire was at its glorious heights with Baghdad being the world’s greatest city. Until the Mongols, of course. Indians barely avoided ...

Colleen C. Ho, from the Department of History at the University of Maryland, gave a lecture on “The Greatest Hits of Mongol History: Life, Death, and Chinggis Khan.” The Mongol Empire left a ...