How the Mongols Changed the World

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

After the death of Chinggis Khan, the founder and first Emperor of the Mongol Empire, the land became the largest contiguous empire in history.

The Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire, was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. A force in global development as important as Rome, the Horde left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day.

Marie Favereau, Associate Professor of History at Paris Nanterre University, joins Dan on the podcast. They discuss the Mongols as thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history and how that empire continued to shape, incubate and grow the political cultures it conquered.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Dance in this History.
0:03.2	Greatest contiguous land empire ever carved out, the Mongols.
0:07.0	The Mongols built an empire that stretched from Korea to Poland, down into China and South
0:11.6	Asia.
0:12.6	It's one of the most extraordinary imperial stories in our history.
0:15.9	And Marie Favreau is just written a beautiful, a wonderful book about it.
0:20.0	She's Associate Professor of History at Paris and Nonteur University.
0:23.0	She was a 2021 Cundle History Prize Fund.
0:25.7	This is where I met her.
0:26.7	And this is our conversation in the run up to that prize when she was a finalist.
0:30.6	She didn't win sadly, but she was a worthy finalist.
0:34.7	The Mongols are known for their conquest book.
0:36.3	Marie Favreau was able to talk to me all about how they ran a huge empire in the aftermath
0:41.3	of that initial wave of conquest.
0:44.4	She talks about this cross-border integration, trade, messengers, the landscape.
0:49.4	It is absolutely extraordinary.
0:51.0	I'm massively excited about this podcast.
0:52.8	Thank you, Marie, for coming on.
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