Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

Name: Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
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ISBN: 9780521602709

ISBN-10: 052160270X

ISBN-13: 9780521602709

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Authors: Thomas T. Allsen, David Morgan

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In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural clearing house for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations shared the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was a lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy. The book concludes by asking why the Mongols made such…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 6.996
Language: English




Background



Introduction



Before the Mongols



Political-Economic Relations



Formation of the Il-qans, 1251ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½65



Grand Qans and Il-qans, 1265ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½95



Continuity and change under Ghazan, 1295ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1304



Sultans and Grand Qans, 1304ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½35



Economic ties



Overview of the relationship



Intermediaries



Marco Polo and Po-lo



Qubilai and Bolad Aqa



Rashid al-Din and Pulad chinksank



Cultural Exchange



Historiography



Geography and cartography



Agriculture



Cuisine



Medicine



Astronomy



Printing



Analysis and Conclusions



Models and methods



Agency



Filtering



Summation