great change in Eurasia. During this time period nomadic groups like the Turks and especially the Mongols began to unite and invade many areas of Eurasia. The Mongols were able to for a massive empire spanning nearly all of Eurasia‚ uniting almost the entire continent. The Mongol invasion brought with it many major political changes‚ especially in China‚ Persia‚ and Russia. In China before the Mongol invasion there were some parts of China that were not unified as the Song dynasty lost power‚ and
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have become more like Mongols in their pastoral adaptations‚ many Mongols have adopted an urban way of life and moved away. As described by anthropologist William Janowiak‚ the result were not what the Chinese government intended. In many ways‚ to be sure‚ the urban Mongols had abandoned their traditional culture and assimilated to the dominant Han culture. Many Mongols in the city no longer speak the Mongol language. Parents find it difficult to get children to speak Mongol when they live among
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West and is home to some 1.5 billion people. In China’s diverse history‚ there appears to be a rather surprising anomaly: the rule by ethnic minorities in a country with an astoundingly homogenous population that is 92% Han Chinese. Somehow‚ the Mongols and Manchus were able to conquer China and establish the Yuan (元‚ 1271-1368) and Qing (清‚ 1644-1912) dynasties‚ respectively. The Mongol’s Yuan Dynasty
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Beijing is captured in 1215. Mongols attack and sack Baghdad‚ killing many Muslims and extending the Mongol Empire into the Middle East. Kublai Khan establishes a unified Mongol empire centred in China. Mongols revive the Silk Road trading routes‚ assuring safety of traders from raiders and Crusaders. Kublai Khan conquers all the rest of China and founds the Yuan Dynasty
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Introduction Temujin was born in 1162‚ near Lake Baikal and Khaldun Mountain in present day Mongolia. He was born into the Mongol society. He was the son of Yesukai‚ his father who was a Mongol chief of a region between the Amur River and the Great Wall of China‚ and Ho’elun‚ his mother. Temüjin began his gradual ascension to power by offering himself as a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance*‚ or a vassal‚ to his father’s anda‚ sworn brother‚ Toghrul‚ who
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languages and describe things into details‚ Khubilai Khan the emperor of the Mongol including China decides to keep him which he later became an advisor and tax collector to the emperor. When Marco Polo returned to Italy after spending seventeen years in the Mongol kingdom where he gives account about how the Mongol won their battles and dominant Asia. Additionally‚ Marco Polo recounts the kind of weapons and armies the Mongols used to win their battles. The weapons they used were bows and arrows‚ sword
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as Marco Polo. He also used traditional Mongol military tactics and more “modern” tactics such as guns. The territory Genghis Khan conquered was made possible mostly by his political abilities and partially by some new weapons. He allowed people he conquered all freedom as long as they obeyed his overall authority. Although‚ Genghis Khan had many advantages‚ he was best at using his clever military strategies. For example‚ before conquering the “Mongols would promise justice to those who surrendered
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Barbaric means savage‚ cruel‚ and primitively unsophisticated.The Mongols were said to be barbaric and that is true. There are multiple documents of evidence for why they were. Some reasons for why they were barbaric are these‚ they have a high murder toll‚ they participated on mass destruction of villages‚ and they participated in the destruction of marriages. First off‚ the Mongols were barbaric for their high murder toll. They participated in the destruction of human beings‚ such as themselves
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events that took place under his rule and command as the Mongol ruler. Genghis Khan had his soldiers destroy many of the Chinese‚ Japanese and Korean farmland without the permission of the rightful land owner. And according to one Chinese Peasant who lived of off her crops‚ the Mongols took some of the crops for themselves‚ burned the rest and left nothing (Not even a seed to plant crops and start over) for her to live of off. The Mongols even had the nerve to kill her beloved husband and her very
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Sorghaghtani Beki was one of the most powerful and competent women in the Mongol Empire Shamanism is a range of traditional beliefs and practices that involve the ability to diagnose‚ cure‚ and sometimes cause human suffering Mahmud of ghazni was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire Temujin He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia Steppe diplomacy Mongol system of tribal alliances Calvaries were forces that fought principally on horseback
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