Who was the main enemy of the Mongol Empire? Which Chinese dynasty was created by the Mongols? Who came first: Kublai Khan or Genghis? Where was the Mongol Empire located? Who built the first united Chinese Empire? What Chinese dynasty was ruled by the Mongols?
Who ruled India after the Khilji dynasty? What type of government did the Ming Dynasty have? Which Chinese dynasty was referred to as the Middle Kingdom? What was the first dynasty of Imperial China? What Chinese dynasty was ruled by the Mongols?
Genghis Khan died in 1227, amid a campaign against the Tangut people. His tomb has never been found, and texts written during his lifetime are virtually silent about its location. After Genghis Khan's death, his son Ogedai (also spelled Ögedei or Ögodei) ruled over the Mongols unti...
Who almost ruled the world? But forGenghis Khan, it was just the start. Over the course of the century, he and his successors built the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, a 12-million-square-mile swathe of land that stretched from the Sea of Japan to the grasslands ...
For thousands of years, it acted like a patron saint but meanwhile a barrier for the power extension of Han Chinese who ruled the central plain. In all of ancient Chinese history no Han ruled north of the Great Wall. While the Wall kept out the invaders, it did not block cultural exchan...
The Seljuk (pronounced "sahl-JOOK," and variously transliterated as Seldjuq, Seldjuk, or al-Salajiqa) refers to two branches of a dynasticSunni(maybe, scholars are torn) Muslim Turkish confederation that ruled much of Central Asia and Anatolia in the 11th–14th centuries CE. The Great Selju...
In episode 2 we had a apparently gorgeous city that turned out to be rubbishy and ruled by hypnotic brain slugs. In episode 3 we had a mystery in a jungle that turned out to be alive. In episode 4 we had a survival story in the arctic. And in the last two we had a courtroom dr...
but it’s been a real struggle. After two jobs in a row that I didn’t really want to take but represented the best I could do at the time, adjuncting for a semester someplace where I’m pretty sure they aren’t going to call me back, and four months of being out of work, I...
Let us move to the Guptas. The Guptas came to power when majority of North and Central India was under the powerful Naga and Vakataka kings. Fortunately enough, the Puranas give the names of some of these kings, who ruled just before the rise of the Imperial Guptas. In that list, one...
Who united China after the time of the Three Kingdoms? Who ruled the Eastern Zhou Dynasty? Which dynasty created the first Chinese Empire? What dynasty controlled the largest area of Imperial China? Who overthrew the Xia dynasty? What empire ruled China before Mongols came? Which Chinese dynasty...