History of Central Asia - Baumer Christoph
History of Central Asia - Baumer Christoph Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. This third volume of…
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History of Central Asia - Baumer Christoph
Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. In the first half of the 13th century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen.
A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids.
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