The imperial project of the Mongols was based not only on conquering technologies, most effective for their time, but also new technologies mobilizing, centralizing and managing resources necessary further conquests. important tool mobilizing resources, both human material, population census, which had a general character covered significant part inhabited world – from China to Rus’ principalit...

Research objectives: The goal of the article is a comparative analysis information recorded by John Plano Carpini on Mongolian and Mongol Empire law, along with other sources law legal traditions aimed at determining objectivity diplomat’s materials observing evolution traditional Mongols. materials: Verification carried out basis work “The Story Mongols Whom We Call Tartars” Carpini, making co...

The article discusses the problem of how information about death Genghis Khan in Tangut state appeared Russian chronicles. It is known that did die Xi Xia, although he was not killed there, as Galician-Volyn Chroniclewhich forms a part Hypatian Codexinforms us. This absolutely unique for medieval historiography. Experts have made number assumptions its appearance Russia, but it too early to dec...

Parental mosaicism for trisomy-21 is a recognized reason for the birth of mongol children, and the possibility of parental mosaicism may be suspected especially in couples who produce more than one 'regular' mongol. However, in a recent review, Richards (1970) found only 11 documented instances of this occurrence. We wish to describe another woman in whom mosaicism was suspected clinically but ...