Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire (2nd edition)

Among the dubious arguments currently being put forward by English pro-Brexit campaigners is “Britain had the greatest empire the world has ever seen, and was once the richest country in the world”. It is, perhaps, worth pointing out that, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, the richest country in the world was Mali, and that the empire which has ever covered the largest proportion of the known world was Mongolian (It is tempting to wonder what would have happened if Kublai Khan had known of the existence of America – at the time he had a fleet of the...