: ‘The Horde’: Marie Favereau rewrites the conventional history of the Mongol conquerors #IndiaNEWS Mongols. Few conquering peoples have excited such fear, trepidation, vilification – and, according

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‘The Horde’: Marie Favereau rewrites the conventional history of the Mongol conquerors #IndiaNEWS
Mongols. Few conquering peoples have excited such fear, trepidation, vilification – and, according to the French historian Marie Favereau, such a thorough misunderstanding. In The Horde, an ambitiously revisionist account of the Mongol Empire, Favereau presents the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century conquerors of the steppe as sophisticated stewards of globalism, rulers who practiced remarkable tolerance and stimulated far-reaching economic growth. At the heart of this book is the idea of a “Mongol exchange�: the confluence of people, commodities, and ideas which rivalled only the Columbian exchange – the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century encounter between Europe and the New World – in historical significance.The scale of Mongol conquest is awe-inspiring. Beginning under Genghis Khan in the early 1200s, this nomadic people broke out of their sub-Siberian homelands to overrun much of the known world. In the east, they subjugated China and Korea. To the south, they decimated the Islamic powers of the West Asia, Transoxiana, and Iran; their horsemen even reached the vicinity of Lahore. Much of Eastern Europe fell under their sway while to the north Mongol scouts might have encountered the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean.What explains such rapid and expansive empire-building? Favereau disputes the idea of a Mongol “Manifest Destiny� – that Genghis Khan...Read more

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