19. The Mongols - Terror of the Steppe

In the far east of the Eurasian steppe, the sound of hoofbeats is growing...

In this episode we travel along the vast grassland corridor of the steppe, to hear one of the most remarkable and unlikely stories from medieval history – the story of the Mongol Empire. Find out how this group of nomadic horse riders united the peoples of the Mongolian steppe, and forged them into a truly unique kind of state. Discover how they conquered much of the lands of Eurasia, and brought the distant cultures of China, Persia, the Middle East and Europe into contact. And hear the story of how the world’s largest land empire finally came apart, and left the world as we know it in its wake.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction
09:31 The Steppe
50:51 Temujin
01:53:51 Chinggis Khan
02:18:28 China
03:02:42 Persia
03:33:27 Succession
04:02:20 Ogedei
04:19:41 Europe
05:01:23 Assassins
05:19:11 Kublai
06:03:20 The Fall
06:34:21 Ghosts of the Steppe
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