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Discover how a brilliant and brutal strategist forged the largest land empire in history. Stream 'Genghis Khan: The Secret ...
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This marks the third confirmed shipwreck found from the 1281 Battle of Koan. The Mongol empire under Kublai Khan had previously tried to invade Japan in 1274 in the same region. Both attempts ...
The Secret History of the Mongols, premieres on National Geographic Thursday, May 1 at 9/8c. The new National Geographic docuseries brings to life the tale of Genghis Khan, a fearless warrior and ...
Strangers in the Land” by Michael Luo shows how a people who were met with racist cruelty pressed the United States to make ...
Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing. By Alissa Wilkinson During every scene of this western, I couldn ...
Instead, one hypothesis is that "Crimea" derives from a Mongol or Turkic root ... "Before the British had their empire ... the Italians settled all around the coast of the Black Sea, and they traded ...
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