Товч агуулга:The book opens with a chapter on Eurasian nomadism and an account of the Turkish conquests, seven centuries before those of the Mongols. The author deals fully with Chingis Khan and his achieve-ments both as a soldier and as an adminis-trator, and goes on to describe the Mongol drive into Europe and the Christian response to it. Mongol rule in China and Persia is discussed and the period of Mongol dominance in Russia is also covered. There is a final chapter on the Mongol age in retrospect, which looks at the achievements of the Mongols and includes a comparison between the Arab conquests of the seventh century and the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth.
