Dschingis Khan

The Mongolian army, led by Genghis Khan, conquered more countries and peoples in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred years. In almost all the countries that the Mongols conquered, they facilitated an unprecedented surge in cultural communication, an expansion of trade, and a flourishing of civilization. Genghis Khan was far more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, abolishing torture, granting universal religious freedom, and dismantling the feudal system with its aristocratic privileges. From the history of his rise from tribal culture to the explosive development of civilization that the Mongol Empire triggered, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic tale of the emergence of the modern world.