The Storm from the Steppes is the title of my blog series concerning the history of the Mongol Empire, of which I hope to release one installment every week.
My aim is to dispel myths about the Mongol conquests, and to popularize history somewhat while maintaining its accuracy. As such, I will be writing non-fiction, but not academic essays.
The series will be extensive, as I hope to go into a fair amount of detail:
- Introduction
- Profile: Genghis Khan
- The Storm Rising: The Unification of the Tribes
- Profile: The Mongol Army
- Mongol Tactics and Strategies
- 1206-1216, The First Decade in China: The First Invasion of Xi Xia, the Attack on the Jin and the Defeat of the Khitai
- The Chinese Context: The Jin and the Song
- The Liberators of Islam: The Defeat of the Qara-Khitai
- The Scourge of God: The Invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
- Profile: Tolui, Fourth Son of Genghis
- The Great Raid West
- The Battle of the Kalka
- Profiles: Jebe and Subotai, Generals of Genghis Khan
- Profiles: Jelme, Genghis’ Brothers, and his First Three Sons
- 1225-1235, The Second Decade in China: The Subjugation of the Xi Xia and the Invasions of Korea and China
- The Caucasus: Jalal al-Din Returns
- The Invasion of Europe Begins: The Volga Bulgars and Northern Russia
- The Battle of the River Sit
- The Subjugation of Georgia and Armenia
- The Great Army Marches Onwards: The Defeat of the Mordvins, the Conquest of South Russia and the Ravaging of Galicia and Volynia.
- The Polish Raid
- The Battle of Liegnitz
- The Invasion of Hungary
- The Battle of Mohi Plains
- The Defeat of the Seljuk Sultanate: Kösedagh
- Profile: Kuyuk Khan, Son of Ögödei, Grandson of Genghis
- Profiles: Genghis’ Grandsons: Möngke, Hülegü and Khublai
- The Assassins
- The Scourge of Islam: The Sack of Baghdad
- The Holy Land
- The Myth of Mongol Invincibility: ‘Ain Jalut and the First Battle of Hims.
- The Focus on the East: China, Korea, and the Invasion of South-East Asia
- The Ilkhan-Mamluk War and the Ilkhans of Persia
- Profile: The Mamluk Sultanate
- Profile: The Golden Horde
- Mongol Civil War
- Kamikaze: The Mongol Invasions of Japan and the Divine Wind
- The Final Subjugation of China
- Conquests in South-East Asia
- Kulikovo Fields: The Defeat of the Golden Horde
- Profile: The Chagatai Khanate and Tamerlane
- Profile: Toqtamish and the Resurgent Golden Horde
- The Fall of the Yuan Dynasty
