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Feudalism and the Tatar Polity of the Middle Ages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Lawrence Krader
Lawrence Krader
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During the first millenium A.D. a series of states were formed by Turkic and Mongol peoples, the nomadic pastoralists of the Asian steppes - the Tatars of European and Chinese record. These political enterprises enlarged their scope and power during the period of a millenium, reaching a climax in the empire of Chingis Khan in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; from this climactic achievement they have since declined. The social and political organization as well as the economy of these peoples are at once simple and complex, primitive and advanced. The characterization of this cultural world has been given focus in a sharp controversy, the controversy over the establishment and internal ordering of the political system.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , October 1958 , pp. 76 - 99
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1964

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