How 'Mongol' was the Mongol Empire?
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| Description: | Wright Lecture given on 28th February, 2013 by Prof. David Morgan, Emeritus Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Created: | 2013-03-04 16:18 |
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| Collection: | Wright Lectures |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | University of Cambridge |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | Mongol; Empire; Asian; Culture; mediaeval; |
| Abstract: | The traditional view of the Mongol contribution to the establishment and rule of their 13th and 14th-century empire is that it was essentially military. The Mongols relied on others – Central Asian Turks, Chinese, Persians – to do the actual work of running their empire for them. A more careful examination of the primary source material, together with the results of recent research, suggests that historians have tended greatly to overstate this, and that we have much underestimated the Mongols. |
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