With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. For those they conquered, and for those who later overthrew them, new histories and narratives were needed to account for the Mongol rise. And as people, ideas, and commodities circulated in these vast and interconnected spaces, new types of objects and new visual languages were created, shifting older patterns of artistic production. The Mongol rise is now routinely cast as the first glimmering of an early modernity, defined as an ever-increasing acceleration in systems of contact, exchange, and cultural collision. Yet what is at stake in framing the so-called Pax Mongolica in this way? What was changed by the Mongol rise, and what were its lasting-legacies? It is the goal of this book to address these and other questions about the Mongol impact and their modern role, and to make these debates available to scholars beyond Mongol Studies. Contributors include specialists of Mongol history and historiography as well Islamic, East Asian, and European art. Topics considered range from historical chronicles to contemporary historiography, and from textile production to map-making and historical linguistics.