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What was the largest empire in the history of mankind?
Nope…not the RomansClose..but not Alexander’s Greek Hellenistic
EmpirePersians….nahNot the Mughals…or the Ottomons…No, Not the Aztecs…
Mongols
• By total area: British Empire (1922), 33.7 million square km spread all over the world
• By contiguous (unbroken) area: Mongol Empire (ca 1300), 33.0 million sq. km
• By% of world population: Persian Empire (ca. 480 BC), 44%
• By % of world GDP: USA (1945) 33%
Matching
• 1. Ghengiz Khan A. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in
• 2. Kublai Khan B. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing
• 3. Zhu Yuanzhang C. United the various Mongol Tribes
• 4. Ming Dynasty D. Age of Mongol rule in China
• 5. Yuan Dynasty E. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall
Matching
• 1. Ghengiz Khan A. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in
• 2. Kublai Khan B. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing
• 3. Zhu Yuanzhang C. United the various Mongol Tribes
• 4. Ming Dynasty D. Age of Mongol rule in China
• 5. Yuan Dynasty E. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall
Skilled horsemen
• Expert warriors on horseback
Rival Mongol clans fought each other
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Genghiz Khan
• The chieftain that united all the Mongol clans
The Golden Horde
Forced conquered people to pay
TRIBUTE!
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Walled cities• Mongols had a
problem getting inside the walled cities of China
• Incorporated canons in his arsenal
Territories
• Mongols took northern China, Russia, and Muslim lands
Pax Mongolia
• What does PAX mean?
• Protected the road across Eurasia
• Cultural diffusion
Kublai Khan
• Genghiz Khan’s grandson• Took over the Song dynasty
You with us? What are the 6 Chinese dynasties you
learned this year? Did you read? Describe the dynasty
created by Kublai Khan- What is the next Dynasty that claims the
“mandate of heaven” after Kublai Khan dies?
Who is one famous person that comes out of the Ming dynasty?
Yuan Dynasty
• Mongol dynasty• Only allowed Mongols
in the military and government
Marco Polo
• Visits China during Kublai Khan’s rule
Ming Dynasty
• The Yuan Dynasty is overthrown by the Ming dynasty– Chinese dynasty– Restored the civil
service test, and
Confucian Ideals
Zheng He
• 1405• 62 large ships &
hundreds of smaller ships
• 25,000 sailors• Prime directive: to
promote trade and collect tribute
South East Asia
• S.E. Asia • India• Red Sea• Persian
Gulf
Zheng He dies
• 1433• Ming outlaws sea-
ship building– Why?
Why?
• High cost & little return
• Ethnocentrism
60 years later…..
• Christopher Columbus sails from Spain
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