Christopher Peacher HI 101 Chapter 12 and 13 Questions CHAPTER TWELVE 1. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world‚ Russia‚ China‚ and Europe? In the Islamic world‚ the Mongol conquest of Persia resulted in the conversion of large numbers of Mongols to the Muslim faith. While Mongol domination of Persia did damage Persian agriculture‚ the Mongols had less of an impact on Persian government‚ as Mongol rulers made extensive use of the sophisticated Persian bureaucracy. Ultimately
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access in China and Russia to be easier. In China‚ the Mongols moved the capital to Beijing. Beijing then became the center of trade and commerce in China and for Southeast Asia. In Russia‚ the Mongols formed an alliance with the Orthodox Church. Mongolia combined the church and government‚ giving the church more political power. Because the church was in Moscow that is where they collected the tribute and let the church prosper. Mongol rule was religiously tolerant. In Russia‚ the Orthodox Christians
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the Beijing-Tibet highway‚ on a section that links the capital to the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia. The main reason traffic has increased on this partially four-lane highway is the opening of coal mines in the northwest‚ vital for the booming economy that this month surpassed Japan’s in size and is now second only to America’s. Car ownership and gridlock have grown so commonplace that Inner Mongolia authorities restrict cars’ movement to alternate days‚ based on odd or even numbers in their license
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The first question about the Mongol conquests is: Why did the Mongols erupt from Mongolia in the early 13th century to begin their conquests of the rest of the world‚ creating the largest contiguous land empire in world history? There has been considerable speculation about the reasons for the Mongol eruption from Mongolia‚ and though there is no scholarly consensus on specific reasons‚ many have pointed to the causes of trade‚ and the figure of Chinggis Khan. A second reason often mentioned is
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coercion. (En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire) 2. He was the founder and Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire‚ the largest contiguous empire ever‚ from 1206 until his death in Autumn 1227. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_khan) 3. In modern Mongolia‚ Genghis Khan is regarded as the father of the nation for his role in uniting the Mongol confederations and therefore providing a common identity to what had previously been a territory of nomadic tribes sharing only a language and culture. Equally
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I’m going to speak a little bit about china. -China has 1.3 billion people‚ a little over 20 percent of the world’s population. - The capitol city is Beijing and I have been there myself. China is the fourth largest country in the world. Only Russia‚ Canada and USA are larger. - The Great Wall of China is the longest man-made structure found anywhere in the world. The main reason for making the wall was to protect themselves against the Mongols. The wall is around 5.500 miles long. - Giant pandas
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The Mongols had came ready for whatever got in their way. “During the 13th century a small tribe formed the grasslands or steppes of central Asia conquered much of the known world.”( background essay) They were also known as “barbarians.” They killed and didn’t care for anyone that came in front of them. The Mongols had a child born on the Mongolian plains in 1167. His name was Temuchin. An additional 20 years Temuchin has fought to bring the Mongol clans in shape. They needed a leader so he had
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Big Era 5: Compare and contrast major empires this era: Ghana‚ Mongols‚ Aztecs‚ Japan and Europe. Compare: Mongols and Aztecs were both great empires‚ and cultural "power houses". Both had rich culture‚ and many citizens. Contrast: Mongols were in central Asia‚ the Aztecs were in Mexico. Mongol Empire fell from the inside‚ because the ruling generations after Genghis Khan divided the lands of the empire between sons. These sons fought‚ and soon the empire fell. The Aztecs fell because of an
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The books have claimed the Mongols to be barbaric‚ but how barbaric were they? The barbarians have earned the title barbaric. The barbarians were people who didn’t belong to a certain culture or group of people‚ and pretty much did what they pleased. The Mongols were barbaric with their laws‚ punishments‚ and the amount of battles and deaths caused in their presence. The barbarians were barbaric in many different ways. The Mongol Empire was bigger than the continental U.S.‚ being 4‚860‚000 square
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Even though the Mongol Empire and the Mali Empire were on to separate continents they had key idea in the rise of their empire that resembled each other. The Mali and the Mongol empire both raised their empires on the sense of religious tolerance and they both accomplished cultural growth through trade. However they differed with their use of violence as a method of conquering and their origins. The rise of the Mongol and the Mali Empire were similar in their sense on religious tolerance. In Mali
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