The Mongol Storm
Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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Narrated by:
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Nick Biadon
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By:
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Nicholas Morton
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How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages.
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region's complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions.
In a single generation, the Mongols conquered vast swaths of the Near East and upended the region's geopolitics. Amid the chaos of the Mongol onslaught, long-standing powers such as the Byzantines, the Seljuk Turks and the crusaders struggled to survive, while new players such as the Ottomans arose to fight back. The Mongol conquests forever transformed the region, while forging closer ties among societies spread across Eurasia.
This is the definitive history of the Mongol assault on the Near East and its enduring global consequences.
©2022 Nicholas Morton (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedListeners also enjoyed...
The book did describe many details that I wasn't aware of and the thing that I was seeking was what happened after "Ain Jalut" battle, which the book did answer me about it clearly.
What I hate the most about the book is that it didn't dive deeply in the ONLY battle where the Mongols were defeated greatly which is "Ain Jalut" where Muslims did a great preparation for it and the battle was one of the rare REAL EPIC battles of all time because it prevented the Mongols even from entering Africa.
The writer mentioned many details about many trivial things, but he never elaborated or dived deeply in the details of "Ain Jalut". He just mentioned it in a very brief sentences, which is unfair compared to the impact of this battle in human history!
This battle was the undoing of the Mongol Pagans.
If you're buying this book to learn about the battle of "Ain Jalut" and how the Mamluks reclaimed territories from both Mongols and Crusaders, then this is NOT the book for you.
But if you want to learn the ways of life of Mongols and their motives of invading the world, then this is good book for you to start with.
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