The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy

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Transaction Publishers, 1967 - 581 pages
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The rise of the Mongol empire under Jenghis Khan and his successors, and its gradual decay. With a concluding chapter on the place of Mongolia in the world today.
 

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I
ix
II
15
III
22
IV
39
V
54
VI
65
VII
83
VIII
103
XXII
304
XXIV
318
XXV
342
XXVI
358
XXVII
370
XXVIII
382
XXIX
391
XXXI
405

X
117
XI
143
XII
158
XIV
180
XV
201
XVI
211
XVII
222
XVIII
234
XIX
248
XX
271
XXI
287
XXXII
412
XXXIII
423
XXXV
436
XXXVI
452
XXXVII
466
XXXVIII
475
XXXIX
490
XL
508
XLI
520
XLII
536
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Page 345 - Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Page x - ... flees, the rest of the group of a hundred are all put to death, if they do not flee too. In a word, unless they retreat in a body, all who take flight are put to death.
Page 144 - To see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.
Page 282 - We will become subject to you, and will place our powers at your disposal." You in person, at the head of the monarchs, all of you, without exception, must come to tender us service and pay us homage, then only will we recognize your submission. But if you do not obey the commands of Heaven, and run counter to our orders, we shall know that you are our foe. That is what we have to tell you. If you fail to act in accordance therewith, how can we foresee what will happen to you? Heaven alone knows.
Page 282 - Thanks to the power of the Eternal Heaven, all lands have been given to us from sunrise to sunset. How could anyone act other than in accordance with the commands of Heaven? Now your own upright heart must tell you: "We will become subject to you, and will place our powers at your disposal.
Page 336 - ... nature. You are witnesses that their idols have the faculty of speech, and predict to them whatever is required. Should I become a convert to the faith of Christ, and profess myself a Christian, the nobles of my court and other persons who do not incline to that religion will ask me what sufficient motives have caused me to receive baptism, and to embrace Christianity. 'What extraordinary powers,' they will say, 'what miracles have been displayed by its ministers?
Page 96 - Khan had remarked at one place that "if a woman is stupid and slovenly, without understanding and without order, we see in her the bad qualities of her husband. But if she manages her household well, receives guests and messengers suitably and entertains them hospitably, she enhances her husband's prestige, giving him a notable reputation in the assembly. Good men are recognised by the goodness of their wives.

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