From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia

An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire



By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China's Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia.



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