CH 11 The Mongol Moment

CHAPTER 11:

PASTORAL PEOPLES ON THE GLOBAL STAGE - THE MONGOL MOMENT

• The Mongols
• formed the greatest land-based empire in history following their breakout from Mongolia in the thirteenth century
• created far greater contact between Europe, China, and Islamic world than ever before
• total population about 700,000
• did not have major cultural impact
• didn't push their ideas on those they took over
• exploited them greatly
• Chinggis Khan
• universal ruler
• created Mongol Empire
• China
• Korea
• Central Asia
• Russia
• much of Middle East
• parts of Eastern Europe
• Are without a real plan
• good timing
• nomads
• always on the move
• powerful army
• sizes varied
• units of 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000 warriors
• Mongol reputation for brutality and destructiveness
• Conquest of China was hard
• Mongols unified a divided China, made many believe that the Mongols had been granted the Mandate of Heaven
• Mongols didn’t know how to govern an agricultural society, so they used many Chinese practices
• Persia
• Mongols were transformed far more in Persia than in China
• Persian bureaucracy
• Russia
• integrated into Mongol Empire as the Kipchak Khanate
• Russian princes adopted Mongol weapons, diplomatic rituals, court practices, tax system, and military draft

(MY THOUGHTS...) The Mongols were a very significant civilization. Without the Mongols Europe and China may not have ever interacted they way they did and things would be a lot different today.The Mongols were not her for a long time but they left a huge mark. They did not spread there own culture but they spread all other culture which allowed the world to change and I think that is really cool. The Mongols were terrible people but so were the Europeans. No one had clean hands.