Caption
Beginnings of the Mongol Empire
Summary
This map shows the extension of the Mongol Empire up to 1233 A.D.
Legend indicates:
- Countries conquered by the Mongols between 1188-1233 A.D.
- Routes of Chinese Taoist traveler between 1221-1224 A.D.
- Papal Embassy of Piano de Carpini between 1245-1247 A.D.
- Papal Embassy of William of Rubruk, between 1253-1255 A.D.
- Marco Polo’s travels from 1211-1295 A.D.
- Other travel routes
- Names of European travelers marked with a star
Source
History and Commercial Atlas of China, Albert Herrmann, Ph.D., Harvard University Press, 1935.
See Huhai Website.
Copyright status
This work is believed to be in the public domain because its copyright is believed to have expired.
Series
This map is one in the series:
- Asia under the Mongols, 1290 A.D.
- Chinese abroad, ca. 1930 A.D.
- The Chinese Republic with Tibet and Mongolia c. 1935
- Modern China-Traffic and Communications, 20th Century
- The Manchu Empire and the European Powers, 1644-1912 A.D.
- Beginnings of the Mongol Empire-Boundaries of 1234 A.D.
- Foreign Religions in Central Asia and China up to the 14th Century A.D.
