This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
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.
You will discover topics such as
- The land of the yellow emperor
- Imperial china emerges
- The golden age: the tang dynasty, 618-907
- The song dynasty, 960-1279
- Kublai khan: the yuan dynasty, 1271-1368
- The great ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Revolutionary madness
- The republic of china to the people's republic of china
- And much, much more!
From horse-riding novice to spending months in the saddle, he learnt to fend off wolves and would-be horse-thieves, and grapple with the haunting extremes of the steppe as he crossed sub-zero plateaux, the scorching deserts of kazakhstan and the high-mountain passes of the carpathians.
As he travelled he formed a close bond with his horses and especially his dog tigon, and encountered essential hospitality - the linchpin of human survival on the steppe - from those he met along the way.
