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Who ran the Mongol Empire?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

D. O. Morgan
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“With the Mongols there is neither slave nor free man; neither believer nor pagan…. And every one who approacheth them and offereth to them any of the mammon of the world, they accept it from him, and they entrust to him whatsoever office he seeketh, whether it be great or whether it be little, whether he knoweth how to administer it, or whether he doth not. All they demand is strenuous service and submission which is beyond the power (of man to render).”

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 114 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 124 - 136
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1982

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