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THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA - CHRISTOPH BAUMER ...

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries  Central Asia was a major political  economic and
cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also
the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This
third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of
the region is above all a story of invasion  when tumultuous and often brutal conquest
profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the
remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital  austere and
egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks  Karakhanids
and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic  literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden
end when  between 1219 and 1260  Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid
lands. Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests  while shattering to their enemies 
nevertheless resulted in much greater mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and
Western Europe.

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