The Big Tent

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This book reveals how a nomadic empire engineered the most ambitious peace of the medieval world-and what it cost to keep it. From the relay-station highways of the yam to the cosmopolitan capitals of Dadu, Tabriz, and Sarai, this volume shows how the Mongols turned conquest into governance, revived the Silk Roads, and moved people, ideas, and technologies at unprecedented speed. Readers meet rulers like Ögedei and Khubilai, merchants underwriting ...