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Essential Histories 57: Genghis Kahn & the Mongol Conquests
The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalogue of superlatives. No army in the world has ever conquered so much territory, and few armies have provoked such terror as the Mongol hordes. So vast was the extent of the Mongol Empire that the samurai of Japan and the Teutonic Knights of Prussia had each fought the same enemy while being unaware of each other's existence. T...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
July 23rd 2003
by Osprey Publishing
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I have always wondered when discussing the Mongol Empire if one should pluralize the word `empire.' The Mongol Empire was the largest land continuous empire the world had ever seen before or since. Genghis Kahn had two things Alexander the Great did not: a longer life, and successors to continue the conquest. I have long believed that had Alexander lived, however, his empire would have stabilized and lasted, instead of dissolving away leaving the world almost sooner then it came. The Mongol Empi...more
Nice pictures and maps. However, there are some contradictions between Lamb's Genghis Khan and Turnbull's book.
Facts is facts. So - how can you give history (okay, even DRY history) less than a 3? The Mongols conquered more, and possessed it for longer, than any other nation EVER. And now - do you even know the capital of Mongolia?
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