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When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her sixth grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool, England, named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school uniforms, and British slang.

From the publisher. Tamerlane (1336-1405) -- the Tartar successor to Genghis Khan -- ranks with Alexander the Great as one of the world's greatest conquerors. His armies were ferocious, feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe. They blazed through Asia like a firestorm, razing cities, torturing captives, and massacring enemies. Anyone who dared defy Tamerlane was likely decapitated, and towers of bloody heads soon became chilling monuments to his...

The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut their story from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving only a hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters. The queens of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the world’s first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and...

In the mid-thirteenth century, a secret society plans an attack with the hope of killing the Khan of Khans and stopping the Mongol invasion of Europe.

A biography of the Mongol leader and military strategist who, at the height of his power, was supreme master of the largest empire ever created in the lifetime of one man.

Reconstructs the history and conquests of the barbarian tribes, specifically the Vikings, Huns, Goths, and Mongols, through dramatic reenactments and interviews. Vikings sails with the Norsemen from Arabia to the New World, stopping off for a bit of pillaging along the way. Goths reveals why this once-fearsome people subjected themselves to Roman rule, only to rise up again at the battle of Adrianople. Mongols rides with Genghis Khan and his descendants...

This course addresses three broad chronological spans. The first third of the course covers the nomadic steppe peoples from antiquity to 550 A.D., from their domestication of the horse through their interactions with the civilizations of China, the Near East, the Greeks, and Imperial Rome. The second third of the course deals with the early Middle Ages, a period of time that was dominated by the spread of the Turkish language across the steppe zones....

The great Mongol chief Genghis Khan united the tribes of Mongolia and controlled an incredible empire. Discover how a nomadic lifestyle, the army's prowess and its commander, Genghis Khan, ensured victory for the Mongols. Not just a great warrior, Genghis Khan also implemented innovations in law, writing, and trade that took his empire to new heights and created a legacy.

The lost tomb of Genghis Khan could be unearthed and destroyed at any time. Can engineer and explorer Albert Lin, equipped with cutting-edge technology and just a handful of obscure clues from ancient texts, find and protect the tomb of the Great Khan before it is destroyed? Lin's research leads him to search for a lost mountain-the Burkhan Khaldun, and make his most remarkable discovery, one that may solve an 800-year old mystery and cause waves...