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By the 1260s, the Mongols controlled most of China, except for the Song Dynasty in southern China. Korea (Goryeo) remained ...
The Mongols besieged the city of Vladimir during their invasion of Kyivan Rus in 1238. Russian artist Vassily Maximov created this somber depiction of the event in 1910. History remembers Genghis ...
The Mōko shūrai ekotoba (Illustrated Story of the Mongol Invasions), a series of paintings commissioned by samurai Takezaki Suenaga of Higo province (today Kumamoto Prefecture), depicts the ...
The Mongol invasion of Asia in the 1200s took enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset a year's worth of the world's gasoline demand today, according to a new study. But even Genghis ...
The Mongol invasion laid waste to many of the cities of Persia (now known as Iran). Over time, though, the Mongols improved their administrative abilities with Persian assistance. Trade and ...