Abbreviated Color Illustration Book - The Grassland Empire

Author: [French] René Grousset
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: We rarely turn our gaze to Central Asia, yet it is precisely the countless struggles over Central Asia that rewrote the course of human history. Whether the Huns, Turks, Mongols, or Xianbei, Khitan, and Jurchen, these major nomadic peoples on the grasslands have always possessed a simple nature. Their bravery and magnanimity, like their savagery and cruelty, are equally genuine and charming. In their unrestrained expression of destruction upon individuals, they played a unique role in history and also established a unique historical culture. Attila, Genghis Khan, and Timur, their deeds are widely known. World chroniclers have made them famous by narrating the grasslands. These great barbarians swept into developed historical civilizations, instantly reducing Rome, Iran, or China to ruins. Their arrival and disappearance seem inexplicable, leading modern historians to still tend to the conclusions of ancient writers: they were the scourge of God, sent to punish ancient civilizations. The renowned Eastern historian René Grousset, with his broad perspective and majestic style, depicts for us a series of grand epics performed continuously by nomadic peoples on the world stage over three millennia.