![]() ![]() Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and Western Europe. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 12, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. The Mongols are powerful and swift - with the Khan at the head of their army, they can pull off aggressive, mobile tactics in Age of Empires IV against any o. ![]() This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. ![]() ![]() In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. ![]()
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