The untold story of the world's greatest empire and the creation of modern China.
     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. Along the way, he conquered all China, gave the nation the borders it has today, and then, finally, discovered the limits to growth. Genghis's dream of world rule turned out to be a fantasy. And yet, in terms of the sheer scale of the conquests, never has a vision and the character of one man had such an effect on the world.

     Charting the evolution of this vision, John Man provides a unique account of the Mongol Empire, from young Genghis to old Kublai, from a rejected teenager to the world's most powerful emperor.

世界上最伟大的帝国和现代中国的创建的不为人知的故事。

     成吉思汗是历史上不朽的人物之一：他是一位天才的领袖，在鼓舞人心的和平统治世界的愿景驱动下。成吉思汗相信自己受到神的保护，他将交战的部族联合起来，建立了一个国家，然后建立了一个横跨亚洲大部分地区的帝国。在他的孙子忽必烈的领导下，这个愿景演变成一种更复杂的宗教意识形态，为进一步扩张提供了理由。忽必烈将帝国的规模扩大了一倍，直到13世纪末，他和成吉思汗 "黄金家族 "的其他成员控制了有人居住的世界的五分之一。在这一过程中，他征服了整个中国，为这个国家提供了今天的边界，然后，最终发现了增长的极限。成吉思汗统治世界的梦想被证明是一种幻想。然而，就征服的巨大规模而言，一个人的愿景和性格从未对世界产生过如此大的影响。

     约翰-曼描绘了这一愿景的演变过程，对蒙古帝国进行了独特的描述，从年轻的成吉思汗到年老的忽必烈，从一个被拒绝的少年到世界上最强大的皇帝。

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