For Emperor Shah Jahan's great-grandfather's grandmother was supposed to have a blood line which, through her father, traced back to the
Mongol emperor Genghis Khan, who lived about 450 years before Shah Jahan.
The
Mongols left virtually no written record of their empire, but their legacy lasts to this day.
Peter Jackson's decades of painstaking research on the
Mongols, the medieval world, and northern India are clear.
40 meter steel statue of the
Mongol warrior Genghis Khan was visited by hundreds of tourists on the anniversary of his death 800 years ago on August 18.
The traders of Lahore conspired with the
Mongols and when things got completely out of hand, the governor escaped after telling his followers that he was going on a night attack.
They say they are on a mission to save their culture and re-engage young
Mongols with it, as the advance of the industrial world not only threatens their environment but also their ancient, nomadic way of life.
Scholars of history, language, law, religion, and Asia as a region seek to dispel some of the myths about the
Mongols and Inner Asia generally by sifting the sources, analyzing their biases, and explicating phrases and passages in the primary texts.
Mongols on the Silk Road: Trade, Transportation, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the
Mongol Empire.
The Secret History of the
Mongols recorded Chinggis Khan's volatile ally, Ong Khan, initially resisting the urge to betray the young leader because he feared that it would bring down the wrath of Heaven.
We all know that Kievan Rus's first encounter with the
Mongols was at the Kalka River battle in 1223, but the Novgorod Chronicle casually mentions that the Rus' fought there in alliance with the "godless Kumans" (Polovtsy, Turkic-speaking nomadic pastoralists) because Prince Mstislav of Galich just happened to be married to the daughter of the Kuman chief.
The
Mongols is an extremely violent OMG that poses a serious criminal threat to the Pacific and Southwestern regions of the US.
Five of the biggest and most notorious are: The Hells Angels, Bandidos,
Mongols, Outlaws and Pagans.
"Mongolians refer to themselves as
Mongols and are very proud.
Grass production must have boomed, as did vast numbers of war horses and other livestock that gave the
Mongols their power.
