![]() ![]() The Horde-ulus Jochi, one of the four divisions of Chingghis Khan's Empire-was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. For three centuries, the Mongol Empire was no less a force for global development than the Roman Empire. ![]() In this majestic new study, Marie Favereau (Paris Nanterre University) takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. In the past few decades, scholarship has started emphasizing other aspects of the three hundred year Mongol project-after all, waves of destruction don't tend to also be referred to by names like "Pax Mongolica," or "the Mongolian Peace." ![]() Such is often the popular perception of the Mongol empire under Chingghis Khan and his successors, who came to control much of Eurasia in the mid-thirteenth century. ![]() Through the ages, word "horde" has entered the English lexicon with a negative connotation, conjuring up images of warriors on horseback, sweeping across the plain-a virtual human flood destroying everything in its path and then receding, leaving a wave of devastation and grief. The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. ![]()
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