Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perfect Warrior"-a man who became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe, as the young Temujin did, on a hairy little Mongol pony? You bet your yurt he doesn't. The sleek horseflesh in this picture would just about last one night in the average steppe pasture at 10 below...
...powerful voice than that of the British appointees. President of the Alliance Party and certain to be chief minister in the new government is Prince Abdul Rahman, known as the Tengku (meaning prince in Malayan), a son of the Sultan of Kedah, a dynasty founded centuries ago by a Mongol chieftain who was shipwrecked on the Malayan coast. Tengku's mother was the daughter of a Siamese chieftain...
Peking was already more than 2,000 years old when one of its invading conquerors decided to make it a place of splendor. The Mongol Emperor Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan, ordered the building of Green Mount, a hill that was dotted with evergreens brought from far and wide by imperial elephants, paved with a layer of green copper ore and topped by a green pavilion. Marco Polo reported in wonderment: "The great Khan caused all this to be made for the comfort of his spirit...
What happened? It was not nature that changed. The land remains, the rains still fall, the rivers flow in the same measure. But under the pounding of warriors and nomads, the ancients' brilliantly intricate system of water conservation disintegrated. Hulagu Khan- and his Mongol hordes rode out of Central Asia, smashed Mesopotamia's elaborate crisscross of canals and dehydrated the Garden of Eden. The waiting Bedouin nomads advanced into the Sinai and Negeb like locusts when Roman and Byzantine authority declined. They demolished vaults, run-off canals and 300-ft. reservoirs. Their goats and camels pushed over terraces...
...finds the barley harvests lying like some sort of killed light in the thin blue air. Wild flowers splurge -in summer the whole Himalaya seems a giant's rock garden. Down from the mountains to the high plateau: yak tents like black tarantulas on the golden plain; cold Mongol faces that, breaking suddenly into gentle smiles, seem like rocks come to life; skin coracles for crossing the rivers ; and never a wheel to be found except the prayer wheels spinning windily in the wayside shrines...