Today I had the great pleasure of attending a talk given at the Seattle Asian Art Museum by Professor Nicola Di Cosmo, a prominent historian not only of the Mongol Empire, but on the relationship between nomadic and agrarian empires throughout the history of East and Central Asia. Given his background, it should come as …
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- Not a historian’s typical source; tree rings preserve annual records of conditions that effected the tree’s growth, such as temperature and precipitation. Pauline Eccles via Wikimedia.
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- A model of Karakorum, demonstrating its developed and cosmopolitan nature, during its 13th century heyday. (Wikimedia)
