An illustration from a medieval French manuscript depicts the Polo brothers’ meeting with Kublai Khan. Credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France. This year marks the 700th anniversary of Marco ...

Marco Polo, while the most famous today, was just one of many emissaries bridging Medieval Europe and the Mongol Empire.

The Mongols were a nomadic group of ... These included the Yuan Dynasty in China, led by Kublai Khan, and the Ilkhanate in Persia. The empire eventually fragmented due to internal strife, external ...

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Özdemir, Şükrü 2024. Biran, M. & Kim, H. (Eds.). The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire. Vol. I: History (pp. xxi+876); Vol. II: Sources (pp. 613). Cambridge ...

what sets The Mongol Khan apart is how it is told. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Hunnic Empire, this fictional tale unfolds in ancient Mongolia, drawing inspiration from real-life ...

For instance, while heavy rain in the 1210s and 1220s “made the grass grow faster”, thereby enabling the growth of Mongol horse herds, Kublai Khan’s expanding empire quickly became the motor of ...

After defeating the Mongol Empire in 1368 and establishing the Ming dynasty ... but China’s formal education system—the oldest in the world—was established nearly two millennia ago. Kublai Khan, ...