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The book is divided into three chapters, which are very unevenly proportioned. The first chapter explains the Asian Plateau before the 13th century, from about 1000 BC to the 12th century AD. The history of more than 2,000 years only occupies 212 pages of the original book. The second chapter is about the Genghis Khan Mongols, commonly known as the history of the Mongol Empire. It occupies 303 pages of the original book, about half of the whole book, but the history it narrates is only three to four hundred years, from the mid-12th century to the end of the 15th century. The third chapter is about history from the early 16th century to 1759, occupying only 85 pages of the original book. Therefore, the history of the Mongol Empire occupies an important position in the whole book. This is not surprising, because the Mongol Empire, which once threatened the two continents of Eurasia, is still regarded as a relatively special object in today's history circles, and its scope is wider than any empire in history.