Contents
Prologue: Attila on the Road to Rome
1: The Peopling of the Eurasian Steppes
2: Surviving on the Eurasian Steppes
3: Scythians and the Great King of Persia
4: Alexander the Great: Walling off Gog and Magog
5: Modu Chanyu and the Great Wall of China
6: The Xiongnu and Chinese Emperors at War
7: The Sons of Heaven and the Silk Road
8: The Parthians, Nomadic Foes of Imperial Rome
9: Heirs of the Xiongnu: The Northern Wei
10: The Hephthalites: Huns in Iran
11: Huns, Allies and Foes of Rome
12: Attila, the Scourge of God
13: The Heirs of Attila and the New Rome
14: Turkish Kaghans and Tang Emperors
16: The Seljuk Turks and Their Sultanate
17: The Legend of Prester John and the Gurkhans of Cathay
18: From Temujin to Genghis Khan
19: Genghis Khan, the World Conqueror
20: Batu and the Devil’s Horsemen
21: The Mongol Sack of Baghdad
22: Kublai Khan and the Unification of China
23: Papal Envoys, Missionaries, and Marco Polo
24: Tamerlane, Prince of Destruction