The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China
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The untold story of the worlds greatest empire and the creation of modern China. Genghis Khan is one of historys immortals: a leader of genius driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia. Under his grandson Kublai Khan the vision evolved into a more complex religious ideology justifying further expansion. Kublai doubled the empires size until in the late 13th century he and the rest of Genghiss Golden Family controlled one fifth of the inhabited world. Along the way he conquered all China gave the nation the borders it has today and then finally discovered the limits to growth. Genghiss dream of world rule turned out to be a fantasy. And yet in terms of the sheer scale of the conquests never has a vision and the character of one man had such an effect on the world. Charting the evolution of this vision John Man provides a unique account of the Mongol Empire from young Genghis to old Kublai from a rejected teenager to the worlds most powerful emperor.
