Why Does Mongol Need To Keep Chinese Culture

1: According to Marco Polo, the Khan received gifts of gold and silver, pearls and precious stones. He also received 100,000 white horses, and 5,000 elephants draped in cloth with birds and other animals. One other thing that occurred was that a giant lion came to the Khan, and flung itself down in a prostrate position, and seemed to acknowledge the Khan as his ruler. This supposedly happened on New Year’s Day.
2: There was disease that killed many of the Chinese soldiers, and their having of horses also helped the Mongols win the war very much.
3: To keep Chinese culture separate from Mongol culture, the Kahn and the Mongols used some Chinese systems of government, but only to strengthen the Mongol rule. Also, the Chinese had low class jobs, while the Mongols had higher class jobs such as scribing.
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His ships brought back many animals. Now although they did go westward, you may say that they failed their mission because they did not reach the Americas. I disagree, though, because the prime meridian was not demonstrated yet, and at the time, everywhere could have been considered West and East, since the Earth is relatively round. Although that was not discovered yet, so to the knowledge of the country, they almost reached the edge of the world. They did travel westward, and there was no eastern hemisphere. Therefore i believe that they succeeded, while we failed to judge the hemispheres incorrectly. (by judging the two at …show more content…
They were about 10x as large as European ships, and could carry just about 500 people.
13: When Europeans came to China, they brought potatoes and corn, while asking for tea and silk.
14: The Manchu tribe defeated the Ming dynasty, and began the Qing dynasty.
15: While the Qings restricted trade, the Yuans reestablished it, and the Quing had no slaves, while the Yuan