The Mongol Conquests Image Gallery
Horses: the key to the Mongols' military strategy
Detail of illustration from History of hte Moghuls, a 17th-century Indian text, Gulestan Palace Library, Tehran
Chinggis Khan's mission to rule the world
Chinggis Praying to Tenggeri, the Sky god (from a 17th-century Indian miniature) Werner Forman Archive
The advantage of the "bow and horse"
Mongol Cavalrymen Engage the Enemy (illustration from early 14th-century manuscript) Biblioteque nationale de France, Paris