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• WAIT FOR IT!!!!!

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The Mongols
Homeland
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Thats One Mighty Big EmpireLargest empire
created by one single person
"The greatest happiness is to vanquish your
enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of
their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in
tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and
daughters"      -GENGHIS KHAN (Chinggis Khan)
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Pre-Empire Characteristics

• Nomadic (pastoralism)
• Tribal (therefore lots of war)
• Largely illiterate (because nomads dont do job
  specialization!)
• Economic system herding flocks, raiding booty
  along the edges of powerful civilizations like
  China
• Social System clan family importance
  constant low-level fighting over pasture, water,
  slaves, resources, etc.

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• To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your
  feet-to take their horses and hear the
  lamentation of their women.
• That is the best.
• Genghis Khan

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Empire!

• 1206-1227 Genghis Khan conquers a huge empire
• Unifies the Mongols themselves by breaking down
  kinship ties (comparable to Muhammads use of
  Islam to unify all Arabs). Like the Arabs, he
  then distracts Mongols from in-fighting by
  conquering others
• Empire China to Syria and Russia to Korea
• Capital at Karakorum
• Began a period of stability known as the Pax
  Mongolica
• The original empire broke up in 1260 but didnt
  completely dissolve

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Mongol Technology

• Mongols were masters of horsemanship and the
  short bow
• Contact with China exposed them to other war
  technology
• Catapult, gunpowder, cannons, flaming arrows, and
  battering rams

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The Breakup
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After Genghis Khans Death

• Divided into 4 main segments ruled by parts of
  the Khans family and lasting into the 1400s
• Great Kublai Khan (Yuan Dynasty of China)
• Khanate of Chaghadai (Central Asia trade
  routes)
• Golden Horde (Russia, Northern Eurasia)
• Khanate of Persia (eastern portions of the former
  Abbasid Caliphate)

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Results of the Pax Mongolica

• The Bad The Mongols caused destruction killed
  a lot of people causing fear dislike, but
• Pax Mongolica The Mongol Peace time of
  stability and peace caused by all of Eurasia
  basically being under the rule of a single entity
• Facilitated contact between various parts of
  enormous land area from Mediterranean to Pacific.
• Promoted interaction between peoples of many
  different ethnicities, religions, cultures.
• More civilized than the civilized?
• Enabled exchange spread of ideas, goods,
  technologies, disease.

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