In 1347, the Black Death first arrived in the Mediterranean via trade ships carrying goods from the territories of the Golden ...

Genghis Khan died in 1227 fighting in China. Upon his successor’s death in 1259, squabbles over succession led to the Mongol ...

In the mid-thirteenth century, a savage Mongol army swept West and conquered most of Western Asia and a goodly portion of Eastern Europe. THE GOLDEN HORDE lasted until around 1480 ...