Nomadic Empires: From Mongolia to the Danube

by Gérard Chaliand

Book Overview

Nomadic Empires sheds new light on 2,000 years of military history and geopolitics. The Mongol Empire of Genghis-Khan and his heirs, as is well known, was the greatest empire in world history. For 2,000 from the fifth century b.c. to the fifteenth century a.d., the steppe areas of Asia, from the borders of Manchuria to the Black Sea, were a "zone of turbulence," threatening settled peoples from China to Russia and Hungary, including Iran, India,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412805554
• ISBN13: 9781412805551
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"