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?
Mongol Empire
1206-1370
Square Miles at the height of Empire
6948000
4246000
3021000
1698400
1158000
Roman
Empire
Arab
Muslim
Empire
China (Sung
Empire)
772000
Mongol
Empire
Inca Empire Continental
United
States
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?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
p9Ol0IJkU7c
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