The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire (Encounters with Asia) by Thomas T. Allsen

The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire (Encounters with Asia)

Thomas T. Allsen

240 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Kha...

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