Genghis Khan's Mongol conquest killed 11% of the world's population, cooled the earth, and left towers of skulls.

Preface to the English edition -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- List of maps -- Introduction -- The premises -- North: the Pontic Steppes before the Mongol "Squall": Cumans, Byzantium ...

Medieval Authors on the Mongols -- The Islamic World and Inner Asian Peoples down to the Mongol Invasion -- The Mongol Westward Advance (1219-53) -- Apportioning and Governing an Empire (c. 1221-c.

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