ABSTRACT
“ The Mongol armies,” writes Mr. S. Lane-Poole, “ divided into several immense brigades, swept over Khwārazm, Khorāsān, and Afghanistan, on the one hand ; and on the other, over Āzerbāyjān, Georgia, and Southern Russia ; whilst a third division continued the reduction of China. In the midst of these diverging streams of conquest Chingiz Khān died in a.h. 624 (1227), at the age of sixty-four. The territory he and his sons had conquered stretched from the Yellow Sea to the Euxine, and included lands or tribes wrung from the rule of Chinese, Tanguts, Afghans, Persians, and Turks.
