The Mongol Empire: An Enthralling Guide to the Unprecedented Expansion, Cultural Exchange, and Legacy of the Mongol Conquests

From the steppes of Mongolia to the plains of Hungary and the heart of Beijing. The story of a herding boy who became the most feared man in history and the empire he built that briefly ruled most of the known world.

In the year 1206, a tribal leader named Temüjin, a man who had survived captivity, hunger, and the murder of his father, stood before an assembly of chiefs on the Mongolian steppe and was named Genghis Khan, universal ruler. Within twenty-five years, his armies had crushed the empires of Central Asia. Within eighty years, his grandsons ruled from the Pacific to the eastern edge of Europe.

It was the largest contiguous land empire the world had ever seen, and a generation of historians is still arguing about whether its existence was a catastrophe, a renaissance, or both.