The bazaars, khans, and the Beth Hamedrash, were visited, and supplied frequent opportunities for proclaiming the Gospel.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
The Russian government is autocratic inasmuch as over the larger part of the country it has simply succeeded to the position of the Mongolian khans who from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century held the Russian people in subjection.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske
It is easy to understand how the governing class, His Holiness, khans, Princes, and high Lamas, as well as the ruined and oppressed people, remembering that the Mongol rulers had once held Peking and China in their hands and under their reign had given her the first place in Asia, were definitely hostile to the Chinese administrators acting thus.
"Beasts, Men and Gods"
Ferdinand Ossendowski