The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in
twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every
country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in
cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of
civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian
counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal
religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege.
From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion
of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of
revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the
modern world was made. "Reads like the Iliad...Part travelogue, part
epic narrative." -- Washington Post "It's hard to think of anyone else
who rose from such inauspicious beginnings to something so awesome,
except maybe Jesus."