Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World By Jack Weatherford epub

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By Jack Weatherford

Published by Three Rivers Press in 2004

Tags: nonfiction, history

EPUB, Retail, 352 pages, English (0609809644)

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.