asia – Manchester Historian

The Asian-Pacific has undeniably been impacted by devastating natural disasters. Investigating from a socio-economic perspective, cases such as the 2004 Tsunami (a natural disaster so big its death toll reached 227,898 across Indonesia and Thailand), can provide an insight into the severity of the chaos wreaked on communities savaged by the natural world.

The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history founded by the infamous Genghis Khan. Alex Larkinson writes a potted history of this multicultural empire.

A review of Dr Parthasarathi’s lecture on the European-Asian economic divergence.