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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reflects both Byzantine experience and the classical legacy of Greek and Roman views and terms * Ibn-Al-Athir gives us an early –thirteenth-century Muslim view of the Mongol attacks on the Islamic World‚ and Marco Polo‚ a European who lived for years at the Mongol court‚ gives us something of an “outside insiders” view of Mongol life. (Sanders‚ Nelson‚ Morillo‚ & Ellenberger‚ 2006‚ p. 181) They also normally did little governing seeing how clans and
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are the Mongols‚ Spanish‚ and Ottoman. From 1180 to 1220‚ Mongolia experienced ad drop in temperature. This meant that the growing season would be cut short‚ and it would become difficult for the Mongols’ animals to survive. Without animals‚ the Mongol society could not survive either. This decreased the trade from North and Northwest. The Mongols needed to obtain goods‚ but without this‚ Mongols initiated attack and invasion against the two dynasties. Organization was the key to Mongols’ armies
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A. Existing trade routes including the Silk Roads‚ the Mediterranean Sea‚ the transSaharan and the Indian Ocean basins flourished and promoted the growth of powerful new trading cities. (such as—to mention just a few— Novgorod‚ Timbuktu‚ the Swahili citystates‚ Hangzhou‚ Calicut‚ Baghdad‚ Melaka‚ Venice‚ and‚ in the Americas‚ Tenochtitlan or Cahokia) Hannah Shapiro and Eliza Antonowich Prior knowledge As new trade routes developed‚ major trading ports and cities were necessary to provide a
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GHENGIS (Chinggis) KHAN After the migration of the Jurchen‚ the Borjigin Mongols had emerged in central Mongolia as the leading clan of a loose federation. The principal Borjigin Mongol leader‚ Kabul Khan‚ began a series of raids into Jin in 1135. In 1162 (some historians say 1167)‚ Temujin‚ the first son of Mongol chieftain Yesugei‚ and grandson of Kabul‚ was born. Yesugei‚ who was chief of the Kiyat subclan of the Borjigin Mongols‚ was killed by neighboring Tatars in 1175‚ when Temujin was only twelve
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all time‚ their empire should’ve persevere longer than it did. The Mongols were pastoralists. The Mongols were blustery warriors that some might even call barbaric. But that’s not the case at all‚ Mongols were the first to master riding a horse in full stride and having enough meticulousness to kill their target which made them like human tanks. They mainly herded horses‚ which later helped them conquer their enemies. The Mongols originated from Mongolia which is referred to as a Steppes which is
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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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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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The Mongols had large armies‚ certainly; but it is their character rather than their size which is crucial "His army is as numerous as ants and locusts. His warriors are as brave as lions." -Anonymous Historians used to opine that the Mongol’s success was a result of their overwhelmingly large armies. They proved to be superior to all their enemies‚ across the globe‚ having rarely lost a dramatic battle. Quality‚ not quantity‚ was the key to the incredible unbroken chain of Mongolian military
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was something that had never been done before. This quick and ruthless behavior is ultimately what led to the barbaric reputation that the Mongols gained during this time‚ They spared no one and left little
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