The name of this wandering people, whose territory covers such a huge space on the map, has been variously derived from (1) /moengel/, celestial, (2) /mong/, brave, and (3) /munku/, silver, the last mentioned being favoured by some because of its relation to the iron and golden ...
On the eve of the Mongol conquests, the political map of Eurasia was highly fragmented, with control divided among a large number of relatively small states. In continental East Asia, China was split between the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchens in the north and the Southern Song Dynasty in the ...