During the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast empire that covered Central Asia, China, and much of the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Their armies threatened Japan, Southeast Asia, and Central Europe. Mongol military strength was based on...

The Mongol Empire, also known as the Mongolian Empire (Mongolian: Монголын Эзэнт Гүрэн, Mongolyn Ezent Güren; 1206–1405) was the largest contiguous empire in history and for sometime was the most feared in Eurasia. It was the...

The Mongol Empire and its Legacy. Edited by REUVEN AMITAI-PREISS and DAVID O. MORGAN. Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts, Vol. 24, ULRICH HAARMANN and WADAD KADI, gen. eds. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Pp. 361. Maps, footnotes, index; $146.50. These are two...

Daily Life in the Mongol Empire, by George Lane. The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History series. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2006. xxiv, 312 pp. $44.95 US (cloth). George Lane, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and...

Explains how the Mongols were able to amass such a huge land empire in such a short period of time.

The mongol empire enhanceD the cultural diffusion from Asia to Europe. There were four main ways in which the mongol empire enhanced this diffusion between Europe and Asia within the 13th and 14th century . This defusion was shown through Economy, Military, Government, and Cultural influences.