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The Mongols' lasting legacy

Mongol faith was based on propitiating the spirit of nature and venerating ancestors

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(Book cover) The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Talmiz Ahmad
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Author: Marie Favereau
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages:377
Price: $29.95

When we think of the Mongols, we recall Chinggis Khan and the “Golden Horde” as it streaked from the eastern steppes to the gates of Vienna in one dazzling movement of conquest and a long trail of destruction, after which the Mongols disappear from our consciousness.

The Mongol story is, in fact, quite different. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongols had the largest contiguous empire in the world: From present-day northern China and Mongolia, it extended to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldavia, Bulgaria and

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