Pax Mongolica: When the Silk Road Flourished Under Terror

For a brief but extraordinary century, a single empire stretched from the Pacific coast to the gates of Europe-and trade flowed as never before. The Pax Mongolica was one of history's great paradoxes: a peace built on unprecedented destruction, a commercial golden age made possible by the most formidable military machine the world had ever seen. This book traces the arc of that contradictory era...