Mongol Empire

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia.

Under his grandson, Kublai Khan, the vision evolved into a more complex religious ideology, justifying further expansion. Kublai doubled the empire's size until, in the late 13th century, he and the rest of Genghis's 'Golden Family' controlled one fifth of the inhabited world.

you will discover topics such as

• Origins of the Mughal Empire
• In the New Land
• One Hundred Years of the Mughal Empire (1605-1707)
• The Decline and Fragmentation of the Empire (1707-1857)
• The Final Generations of the Mughals (1748-1857)
• Memory of the Mughal Empire
• And much, much more!

The story of Karakorum did not end with the decline of the Mongol Empire either. From the 16th century onwards the area became the center of Mongolian Buddhism, a fact underscored by the presence of Erdene Zuu, the earliest Buddhist monastery of the Mongols. Erdene Zuuh was built upon the ruins of the Khan's palace in Karakorum. There is also the nearby Buddhist monastery of Tvkhn.