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南チベット : vol.1

0193

Southern Tibet : vol.1

南チベット : vol.1

CHAPTER XIV.

EUROPE'S KNOWLEDGE OF TIBET IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

The enormous development of Chingis Khan's Empire which took place in
the first half of the 13th century was a very important factor in drawing the
East nearer to the West. In a short time the Mongols became masters of the
greatest part of Asia and eastern Europe, and at the culmen of its power their
Empire stretched from Japan to Katzbach, from Farther India to lake Ilmen. Nearly
all the nations of the old world became more or less dependent upon, or entered
into communication with the conquerors, and at their court the Great Khans received
ambassadors from Popes and Caliphs, from Byzantine Emperors and French Kings,
from Sultans of Rum and Grand Dukes of Russia.¹

The Mongols after having conquered all the northern half of Asia, broke
through the Caucasus in 1222, and spread terror over Kipchak, as southern Russia
was then called. In 1238 a new Mongol devastation of Eastern Europe began to
awake the comprehension of the princes in the western half of our continent. In
1241 Silesia, Moravia and Hungary were overwhelmed. Only political reasons
and the death of the Mongol Emperor Ogodai put an end to further progress west-
wards. The danger could return, and Pope Innocent IV proclaimed a crusade
against the Tartars, as the Mongols were called the envoys of Satan and ministers
of the Tartarus. But he also used more civilized means, and found amongst the
›Tartars‹ an excellent field of labour for the members of the Mendicant Orders of
St. Dominic and St. Francis.² The Friar John of Pian de Carpine was despatched
to the great unknown East, and his name has become famous in the history of

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