History continues to progress and the past comes back to life in the infinite amount of books available today. Library shelves are continuously filled with the knowledge of scholars and the ever growing wisdom they continue to share with the public. The Chinese and Persian Empires have been featured many times with the history of their past. From their very beginning, a vast amount of recorded history has been kept to document these rapidly growing nations. However, when it came to Quadi Khan’s empire, very little is known. The limited sources that are found has made this topic a very difficult subject to cover. What is known about Quadi’s personal life can barely fill a single page. However, many scholars have named him as the “defender…show more content… The total number of foot notes, when compared to number of pages full of actual information gathered, seems disproportional and almost unrealistic. Biran had to be a determined woman to dig through the piles of other peoples and countries historical documents that might only include a single sentence or two about Quadi. She was very organized the way she composed the book. She first gave the Introduction then she shared a brief view of who this Khan was and then continues to tell as to the reasons why the sources for such a topic are so few and scarce. This gives the reader an idea into the way the empire was viewed by neighboring nations and why it is briefly talked about in history. The information she has shared will later provide the background view of the actual text of the…show more content… Biran has provided this in a short description in an attempt to get straight to her main focus point. She wanted everyone to know that Qaidu wasn’t a Khan remembered solely because he was thought to bring about the return of traditional nomadic culture but to also show that he did all that he had to do in order to bring about justice to his royal family line, the Ogodei. He raised his military power in order to bring about a state dedicated to his royal branch. He felt his family lacked a just acknowledgement by the other Mongol states. Qaidu’s was successful in his lifelong goal but it was short lived. Only a few short years after his death, his lifelong achievements fell in 1301. The political stand point he had achieved lost all meaning and the Provence that was under his control broke free. The glory was short lived and a life of work was gone in ten short years. However, history will reflect that Qaidu had resurrected an older royal family way of life and although it was not kept for long he was still the man who accomplished all he had set out to
