EILEEN POWER, Professor of Economic
History in the University of London
Today Professor Eileen Power is to talk about the wandering Mongols, or Tartars, and of the rise of Chingis Khan (1 162 to 1227). She will describe their irresistible advance on horseback. They conquer China as far as the Yangtze ; they conquer Central Asia, and hold the silk road ; they conquer Southern Russia, and invade Hungary; they conquer Persia and take Baghdad (1258). They conquer China south of the Yangtze, and put an end to the Sung Empire (1279).
Professor Power will discuss the rule of Kublai Khan (1260 to 1294) and the Mongol Emperors of China; the Mongol peace and the open roads between East and West ... And as a sequel to this talk, Schools are to hear next week a dramatic interlude by Rhoda Power dealing with Kublai Khan and with Marco Polo , the Venetian traveller, who met and wrote about him.