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Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar to gain access to Genghis Khan’s homeland and burial site, chronicles the life of Genghis Khan and the rapid expansion of the Mongol Empire. The book argues that Genghis Khan’s military innovations and progressive administration—policy of religious freedom, codified law, and promotion of free trade—enabled the Mongols to unite vast regions from Siberia to India and from Vietnam to Hungary. Weatherford explains how the Mongol road network facilitated the exchange of goods, ideas, and technologies such as paper money, printing, the compass, and the cannon, laying groundwork for the modern world.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Jack Weatherford
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