Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent.
This third Volume of Christoph Baumer\'s extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new History of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later History of the g.
In the first half of the 13th century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen.
Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent