Articles on the Mongols

This section lists articles related to the Mongol Empire, their successor states, and the campaigns they conducted in Asia and Europe.  Most of the articles are from our website, but others link to outside websites.

Adshead, S.A.M., Tamerlane and the Global Arsenal, 1370-1405 - from chapter 5 of Central Asia in World History (1993)

Amitai-Preiss, Reuvan, Mamluks and Mongols: an overview - from chapter 10 of his Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281 (1995)

Bedrosian, Robert, The Turko-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13-14th centuries - Columbia University, PhD dissertation, 1979

Conlan, Thomas D., In Little Need of Divine Intervention - from part 3 of his book, In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (2001)

Kosztolnyik, Z.J., The Engagement at Mohi, 1241 - a chapter from his work Hungary in the Thirteenth Century (1996)

Lane, George, An Account of Gregory Bar Hebraeus Abu al-Faraj and His Relations with the Mongols of Persia - Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies v.2:2 (July, 1999)

Onon, Urgunge, The Art of War under Chinggis Qahan - from The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan (2001)

Pelinski, Jaroslaw, The Contest between Lithuania-Rus' and the Golden Horde in the Fourteenth Century for Supremacy over Eastern Europe - from Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi v.2 (1982)

Sinor, Dennis, The Mongols in the West - from Journal of Asian History, v.33 n.1 (1999)

Sinor, Denis, The Inner Asian Warriors - from Journal of the American Oriental Society v.101 (1981) (PDF file)

Smith, John Masson, Mongol Armies and Indian Campaigns - from Indo-Mongolian Society Lecture Papers

Smith, John Masson, Dietary Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire - from Journal of Asian History 34:1(2000) (PDF file)

Venegoni, L., Hülägü's Campaign in the West - (1256-1260) - from Transoxiana Ērān ud Anērān (2003)