The March of the Barbarians
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The March of the Barbarians

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The March of the Barbarians

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An account of four generations of Mongol leaders, from Genghis Khan, through his sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. The book is arranged into a series of narratives, which are grouped dynastically and chronologically covering the span of the Thirteenth Century, and dealing with the process by which the Mongols came to dominate Central Asia and spread outwards to come into contact with Europe, the Indian sub-continent, and China.

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INDEX

Abaka, 272, 274;
Egypt attacked by, 251;
marriage of, 249;
policies of, 250
Abd ar-Rahman, 167, 178, 180;
execution of, 189
Achu, 270 ff.;
navy devised by, 272
Ahmad, 278, 283 ff.;
killing of, 289-293
Ain Jalut, battle of, 244
Ai Yaruk, 264
Alamdar, 233, 257 ff.
Aleppo, storming of, 239
Alexander the Great, 12, 13, 27, 325
Alexander Nevski, 338-339, 341
Almalyk, destruction of, 316
Altan Khan, 310
Altyn Ordu (see also Golden Horde), 205
Amir al Kadr—see Tamerlane
Andrew, Friar, 211, 217
Arabia (see also Arabs), chroniclers of, 364-368
Arabian Nights, 242
Arabs, 31-32, 35, 36, 228 ff., 238
Arghun, Amir, 183, 252, 300;
death of, 311
Arik Buka, 234, 258, 271;
Kubilai’s conflict with, 258
Arlats, 103
Armor, use of, 129
Arragon, John of, 251
Art:
Chinese, 27-28;
Five Cities, 27-28;
Mongol, 41, 265 ff.;
nomad, 28;
Sung dynasty, 288;
Yüan dynasty, 288
Aryans, 12, 13-14, 24, 27-28
Assassins, 227, 229, 238, 246
Atabegs, the, 29
Athir, Ibn—see Ibn Athir
Attila, 16-18
Austria, invasion of, 163 ff.
Avars, 17;
Constantinople attacked by, 18
Babar, 31n, 322 ff.
Babas, 14, 16
Babylon, 4
Bacon, Roger, 287-288, 325
Baghdad:
capture of, by Hulagu, 229;
Kalif of, tortured and killed, 230, 238
Baibars, 242 ff.;
army formed by, 244;
character of, 242-243;
Crusaders won over by, 250-251;
defeat of Crusaders by, 243;
joke of, 248;
Kutuz assassina...

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. I The Steppes of Asia
  3. II The Emperors on Horseback
  4. III The Book of the Kuriltai
  5. IV The Book of the Western March
  6. V The Book of the Three Great Ladies
  7. VI The Book of Tsar Batu
  8. VII The Book of Kubilai Khan
  9. VIII The Consequences
  10. IX . . . Of All the Russias
  11. Afterword
  12. INDEX