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  • The Mongol Storm

  • Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
  • By: Nicholas Morton
  • Narrated by: Nick Biadon
  • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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The Mongol Storm

By: Nicholas Morton
Narrated by: Nick Biadon
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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)2023 Tantor
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Great detailed history of the Mongol invasions

I was broadly aware of the this periods history and the Mongol invasions, but this book provides so many details, makes sense of the period and gills a number of gap. What were the Mongol’s motivations for such massive conquests philosophically? How and why did they decline and who were they replaced by? How did the Ottomans rise from their ashes? How were the Mamluks able to defeat them at Ain Jalut, and how were they able to escape from their revenge afterwards? These and other questions answered in amazing detail. Great learning experience overall.

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Good intro text

This is not an academic monograph. This is an accessibly written narrative history of how the Mongols invaded, controlled, and then saw their rule disintegrate in the Near East. This is not a deep dive into the historiography or anything, nor does it intend to do that. It is designed for novices to learn about this topic in a fun and accessible way. It does exactly that and I got exactly what I was looking for

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Wide-ranging survey.

Seemed to accept contemporary accounts at face value without recognizing they may be slanted for any number of reasons. More about the Mamluks than the Mongols. The many events the author ascribes to the Mongol invasion seem to be like in the “if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon rainforest, snow storms happen in Canada” variety.

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