Why did the Mongols invade China? Mongol Hordes: Starting about 800 years ago, the Mongol Empire expanded across almost all of Asia. They built the second-largest empire in world history, behind only the British Empire of the 19th and 20th centuries. ...
The period 1912-49 in China is commonly called ‘Nationalist’. But at no time did it have a functional government that deserved the nameNationalist. A minority of the warlords tried to be, and nowadays get listed as ‘patriotic’ by Beijing. But the people on top never dared to insist t...
Why did the Mongols expand? The Extent of the Mongol Empire: The Mongol Empire, the world's second largest empire ever, covered a truly massive territory. The Mongols controlled lands from China to Anatolia and from Persia to Russia. Of world empires, only the British Empire of the 19th ce...