The History of Kazakhstan 1. The history of the Kazakh land began with the appearance of the human race in the Stone Age. 2. The ancient nomadic tribes called "saki" inhabited steppes of Kazakhstan in the first millennium В. C. 3. They had high level of material culture‚ developed trades and the production of iron and bronze weapons and developed fine arts ("beast style"). 4. Another big ancient tribe of that time was "usuni". 5. These two tribes had the most considerable influence upon the formation
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Leon Harmon Period 3 APWH Mongols A brute‚ a cannibal‚ a hooligan‚ a monster‚ a rascal‚ and a barbarian all describe a savage person in a primitive state or a person without culture‚ refinement or education. Barbarians have always been seen as uncivilized‚ wild‚ savage‚ crude‚ and uneducated. So is it just to describe the Mongols as such? The answer is no. The Mongols were not barbaric. As the documents discussed in this essay demonstrate‚ they had highly sophisticated military tactics;
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Third great Chinese invention is gunpowder. Everything from Guy Fawke’s night fireworks to modern artillery shells owes their origin to this. Ancient necromancers searching for the elixir of everlasting life on behalf of the Emperor discovered that mixtures of certain fuels and ores could‚ if mixed in the right proportions and heated‚ produce an explosion. This led in time to the discovery of gunpowder. In 1044 Zeng Gongliang wrote “The Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques”‚ and in
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The purpose of this chapter 1‚ "The Material and Trading Worlds‚ circa 1400‚" is to describe what the world was like around 1400 in general terms. The author‚ Robert Marks‚ argues that most changes in history are the result of "huge processes that are hardly detectable‚" coming from the changes in social‚ economic‚ political‚ and cultural structures. He analyzes two major structural aspects of the world in the 1400’s: first‚ material and natural conditions under which most people lived; and second
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Although the Christian and Muslim warriors were of extreme cruelty‚ the Mongols brutality and carelessness was far greater because of their battle tactics‚ physiological warfare‚ and weaponry. These ‘barbarians’ captured a surplus amount of land in a stunning amount of time with questionable war tactics. Despite the brutality of the Mongols‚ Christian and Muslin warriors began to become more and more merciless. All three of these groups of warriors prove to be dangerous and cruel‚ but the Mongols
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There are many similarities and differences between the Roman and Persian states in history. Some of the major similarities include that both of the states had strong militaries to use in battle against each other. Differences include that the way that both of the states choose to worship a religon. The way the Roman and Persian were alike was because of the strong militaries that both of the states had boasted during their respective time period. For example‚ both of the nations had militaries
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The name of Abbasid is derived from Abbas‚ who was Mohammad’s uncle. It was one of the greatest of the Muslim empires‚ which was known as the golden age of Islamic culture. They ruled from 750 to 1258 AD. Their capital city was Baghdad. There were many caliphates who ruled Abbasid dynasty. the last caliph was killed by the Mongol when they invaded the city and took over. The Abbasids were known for their achievements such as trading routes with countries‚ education system‚ building new styles that
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From the 1200’s BCE to 1300 AD‚ empires grew into existence and fell to destruction. They changed the systems of politics and warfare‚ shifting through different styles of warfare and uses for the armies they built. Most empires had some sort of military force used to conquer‚ expand and protect their lands from “barbarians” or certain nomadic people groups. Some empires though‚ such as the Mongols‚ Chinese‚ and those that were apart of the Islamic Empire had specific and vast changes to their military’s
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During the period 600 CE to 1450 CE‚ the process of by which the Islamic Empire and the Mongol Khanates built and maintained their empires was different in that the ways the leaders governed and what sets of laws were used to govern but was similar in that they both depended heavily on military force for expansion and security. A difference between the two kingdoms’ maintenance was how the leaders governed their land. The Islamic Empire rulers‚ also called caliphs‚ ruled both religiously and politically
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The formation and conquests of the Mongol Empire was very influential both politically and economically on China and Russia in various ways. The Chinese were initially economically stable‚ and experienced a period of further economic success under the Mongol rule due to various improvements instituted by the Mongols that helped encourage trade. However‚ overspending eventually majorly contributed to its demise. Dissimilarly‚ Russia’s economy was falling apart at the seams‚ and the Mongol arrival
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