title: The Mongols: A History
author:  Jeremiah Curtin 
description: <div><B>Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906)</B> served in the U.S. diplomatic corps and represented Native American interests before the U.S. Civil Service Commission and Department of the Interior. Greatly admired both for his linguistic skills and his humanitarian interests, he is also renowned as the translator of Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz.</div>
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  Jeremiah Curtin
  
  THE MONGOLS
  
  A HISTORY
  
  With a Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt
  
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  Copyright © Jeremiah Curtin
  
  The Mongols
  
  (1908)
  
  Arcadia Press 2017
  
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  # TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
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  [TITLE](text00000.html)
  
  [COPYRIGHT](text00001.html)
  
  [FOREWORD](text00004.html)  
  
    
  
  [THE MONGOLS: A HISTORY](text00006.html)  
  
    
  
  [CHAPTER I - CLASSIFICATION, MYTH AND REALITY](text00006.html)  
  
  [CHAPTER II - TEMUDJIN BEGINS HIS MIGHTY CAREER](text00007.html)
  
  [CHAPTER III - WANG KHAN OF THE KERAITS](text00008.html)
  
  [CHAPTER IV - TEMUDJIN TAKES THE TITLE OF JINGHIS AND REWARDS HIS EMPIRE
  BUILDERS](text00009.html)
  
  [CHAPTER V - JINGHIS KHAN’S TRIUMPHANT ADVANCE BEYOND THE GREAT WALL OF
  CHINA](text00010.html)
  
  [CHAPTER VI - DESTRUCTION OF THE KWARESMIAN EMPIRE](text00