Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural ''clearing house'' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations ''share...