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Storm from the East: a Review Article1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Thomas Nivison Haining
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These words of the thirteenth-century Hungarian chronicler, Bishop Thomas of Spalato, are not untypical of many descriptions of the consequences of the creation of the Mongol nation (ulus) by Chinggis Khan in 1206 and the subsequent expansion of the Chinggisid Empire. They accord with the popular concept of the Mongol hordes, known by Europeans of the thirteenth century as the Tartars, and believed to be the descendants of Gog and Magog who had broken forth from behind the Alexandrian Iron Gates at Derbend to destroy European culture and Christianity.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , July 1994 , pp. 251 - 254
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1994

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Footnotes

1

Robert Marshall, Storm from the East. From Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan. pp. 244, illus., maps, chronology. London, BBC Publications, 1993. £17.99.

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8 For comments on the Pax mongolica, see de Rachewiltz, op. cit., also Morgan, D. O., The Mongols (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., 1986), p. 83.Google Scholar

9 de Rachewiltz, op. cit.