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SUMMARY:Consolidation of an Empire: The Mongol Khans as City-builders - Su
 sanne Reichert (University of Michigan) and Jan Bemmann (University of Bon
 n)
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CONTACT:Katie Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Susanne Reichert is a Humboldt Foundation-funded visiting rese
 archer at the University of Michigan. Her work spans the Eurasian continen
 t with a focus on Western early medieval archaeology and the archaeology o
 f the Mongol World Empire in Mongolia. She is currently researching the Em
 pires of Charlemagne of the 8th and 9th centuries CE in Western Europe and
  the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan in the 13th century in a
  cross-cultural perspective in order to overcome the hackneyed cliché of 
 the Nomad-sedentary dichotomy. Her research will explore the areas of econ
 omy\, military\, ideology\, and administration through intensive compariso
 ns between the two case studies. In recent years\, Susanne led several fie
 ld research campaigns around Karakorum\, the first capital of Mongol Empir
 e in the Orkhon Valley\, Central Mongolia\, as well as Khar Khul Khaany Ba
 lgas\, a contemporaneous habitation site in Central Mongolia\, to arrive a
 t a better understanding of city–hinterland relations and the nature of 
 pastoralist city foundations.\n\nJan Bemmann is a specialist in the archae
 ology of the Mongol Empire (1206–1368)\, focussing on the analysis of mu
 lti-faceted dependencies in this quickly-expanding and enormous state. The
  political and economic success of the Mongol World Empire highly depends 
 on the exploitation and deportation of specialists out of the conquered re
 gions into Inner Asia. Advisors\, literati\, bureaucrats\, artists\, astro
 nomers and the like are gathered at the court(s)\, artisans\, architects a
 nd farmers specialized in irrigation are settled in newly-founded cities\,
  builders of war machines\, engineers and parts of defeated armies are int
 egrated into one of the most successful armies in the Old World. Jan Bemma
 nn compares the strategy of moving people and knowledge in the Mongol Empi
 re with similar practices in earlier Inner Asian steppe empires.\n\nJoin u
 s to hear about their recent research in Mongolia\, through an investigati
 on of cities of the Mongol Empire.
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