Could the Mongols have taken Europe? The Mongols were certainly world-class conquerors. In the thirteenth century, they ruled the largest contiguous land empire in history. It is commonplace to ...

Ögödei employed Batu Khan, one of Genghis Khan’s grandsons, to lead the push westward across Europe in 1235. The Mongols entered through the upper Volga region and defeated the forces of the ...

The first recorded mention of the Mongols in Western Europe is from a Benedictine monk who, in 1240, recorded testimony that the Mongols were “an immense horde of that detestable race of Satan ...