The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

You may wonder why the South Korean people are not as worried about the military threats from North Korea as we in America and Europe seem to be. Many Koreans have a long view of history and ...

The Song dynasty ruled China from 960 to 1279, marking a period of economic prosperity, technological advances and cultural ...

The Mongol invasion initiated a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and execution. Contemporary sources describe their forces constructing pyramids from the severed heads of their victims – a ...

The empire reached its greatest extent in 1279 when Kublai Khan completed the conquest of China. By that time the Mongols' famously efficient messenger-riders, who could supposedly cover around 200 ...

History is filled with wars, that’s just a natural part of the human condition. It is in the annals of history that we find ...

But beyond a point, it was simply not possible to make enough money without these conquests to pay all of ... more than foreign invasion, is tax evasion, which is something that I was not ...

Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel Coleridge’s opium-fuelled descriptions of the “pleasure dome” at Xanadu, the imperial summer ...