significant Kublai Khan Marco Polo Shinto Samurai Bushido Shogun As you read about the Mongols‚ take notes to answer the questions. The Rise of the Mongols 1. What was the primary cause of conflict between steppe nomads and settled communities? 2. How was Genghis Khan able to unite the nomadic Mongols? 3. What traits enabled Genghis Khan to conquer most of Asia? The Khanates 4. Into what four khanates did the successors of Genghis Khan 5. How did the
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RA ONE- The extra-ordinary sales promotion by SRK I ’ve often heard people say‚ film-making is nothing short of a gamble. And as any gambler will tell you‚ you ’ve got to gamble huge to triumph huge. Going by this logic‚ Shah Rukh Khan is The Supreme Gambler of the year. What ’s at stake‚ beside the big money invested in RA.ONE of course‚ is a dream‚ a vision‚ an aspiration to make a film which appeals to kids and kids at heart. In short‚ attempt a film that appeals to the universal audience
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there be a commander of a hundred thousand between whom and the Khan there is a distance of sunrise and sunset‚ and if he but commit some fault‚ the Khan dispatches a single horseman to punish him” (Doc: 4). A document from the perspective of one of the conquered civilizations would be very useful because it would give insight on how events took place. The Mongol leaders also contributed greatly to their success. Khan (known as Great Khan)‚ the very powerful military leader‚ didn’t tolerate the defiance
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Invisible Empire: The Power of Language and Metaphor in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities by Sara Beth Seay Departmental Honors Thesis The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga English Project Director: Dr. Gregory O’Dea Examination Date: 5 May 2007 Dr. Craig Barrow‚ Dr. Matthew Guy‚ Dr. Robert Marlowe‚ Dr. Gregory O’Dea Examining Committee Signatures: _________________________________________________________ Project Director _________________________________________________________
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emotional richness in our lives Kubla khan poem The pleasure-dome encloses which of the following Gardens and forest What is unusual about the sacred river Alph It goes underground. the speaker in “Kubla Khan” describes a vision he has had The overall mood of the poem could not be described as Apathetic In the stanza beginning on line 12‚ the speaker describes the pleasure-dome as Haunted and wild How does the pleasure-dome come into existence? Kubla khan orders it built In which line
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Problems of National Integration between East and West Pakistan Purpose of this section This section covers the problems of national integration between East and West Pakistan. It introduces candidates to the: Language Movement Emerging disparities between the two wings of Pakistan‚ in terms of economic development‚ deface and other sectors. Summary Between 1947 and 1956‚ the language issue created tension between the people of East and West Pakistan. But it was only one example of the
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The Travels of Marco Polo and the Reception of Kublai Kahn Marco Polo was a Venetian Christian diplomat that gained the trust of one of the most powerful men in history: Kublai Khan. The book outlines the assimilation of one man into Mongol culture. The Mongols were very accepting of other cultures so cases like these are far from rare. One other example is the Flemish Monk Willem van Ruysbroeck’s first hand account of the Mongols. In both pieces of literature you see the culture of the Mongol Empire
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documents by grouping them in one‚ two or three ways Identifies one type of appropriate additional document. Document 1 The Secret History of the Mongols‚ 13th Century‚ compiled from Mongol Oral Traditions After this in the Year of the Sheep Chingis Khan set out to fight the people of Cathay (the Chin Empire in north China). First he took the city of Fu-chou then marching through the Wild Fox Pass he took Hsuan-te-fu. From here he sent out an army under Jebe’s command to take the fortress at Chu-yung
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come and gone. Of all of these empires‚ the Mongol is the greatest of all them. This was thanks to their advancements at the time in engineering‚ military organization‚ and leadership. The Mongol empire started in 1206 in Central Asia when Ghengus khan grew to power. The empire expanded very quickly‚ and the Mongols took over land by invading empires nearby. The expansion of the Mongol empire would connect the eastern and western parts of Asia‚ which would allow trade of technology‚ ideas‚ and goods
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civilization he found interesting was located in Cathay (China)‚ which was controlled by Kublai Khan of the Mongols. Even though Marco Polo’s travels may seem skeptical
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