Introducing the Mongols!!

In a single bubble brainstorm what you

already know about the Mongols!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Ol0IJkU7c

The Nomadic Life• The Mongols were constantly on the move

because they were pastoralists ( herding domestic animals) and those animals needed a pasture (land) to feed off of

• Often times they were grouped in Clans; groups of people of similar descent when they needed large force

• Often though they traded peacefully…

Enter… Genghis Khan

• Around 1200 a leader named Temujin

• United all the Mongols and took the title Genghis Khan (universal leader)

• Brilliant organizer, gifted strategist, and used terror to control!

• Unified all under his control Russia, China, Iraq and Persia! Creating the largest unified land in empire history!

Mongol Empire covered:

Russia, Iran, India and China!!!

When was the Mongol Empire?

1206-1370

Mongol Empire

Square Miles at the height of Empire

1698400

4246000

1158000

6948000

772000

3021000

Pax Mongolia• Surprising the Mongols under peace time

were tolerant to others• For a hundred years 1250-1350ish is called

Pax Mongolia due to the peace and the ability to easily trade good and inventions (like China’s invention of gun powder and the black plague )

Enter Kublai Khan• Although the Mongols were able to conquer

some of China they were never able to take it all over until Genghis Grandson Kublai! HUGE

• Although the Chinese and the Mongols were different since they allowed the Chinese their separate lives. Khan was able to lead them and increase trade!

The end of the Mongols

As the Khan started to lose military battles, spending on luxury items went up and their

control started to weaken.

When Kublai died, fighting within the family made it easier for a weaken group of Chinese

rebels to over throw them!

It Ain't Necessarily So . . .

• According to the Persian historian Juvaini:• In the Muslim countries devastated by Chinggis Khan, not one in a

thousand of the• inhabitants survived (Qtd. in Nicolle 46).

Or?• According to the Muslim chronicler Ghazi:• Under the reign of Chinggis Khan, all the countries . . . enjoyed such

peace that a man• might have journeyed from the land of the sunrise to the land of sunset

with a golden• platter upon his head without suffering the least violence from anyone

(Qtd. in Martin 6)

Mongol Empire Builders:

Fiends from Hell or Culture Brokers?

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