In what ways was life in traditional Mongol society similar to life in pre-Islamic Bedouin society?
Origins of the Mongol Empire
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Mongol Unification
 Temujin 
 o Mongol capital =
 Began conquests beyond Central Asia
Primary Source Analysis:
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What motivated the Mongols to expand beyond the Central Asian steppe?
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What tactics/strategies did the Mongols use to expand their new empire?
Mongol Expansion Under Genghis Khan, 1206-1227
Northern China
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Middle East
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Mongol Expansion After Genghis Khan, 1227-c1300
Russia, 1236-42
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Song China
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 = new capital of the Mongol Empire
Mongol Empire after Genghis’ Death 
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Abbasid Caliphate
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 caliph murdered
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 expansion into Egypt halted by

Mongol Rule in Conquered Lands
 goal:
 submission = /resistance =
 “Pax Mongolica”, o o o o o cross-cultural interaction facilitated
Mongol Invasion of China
 Mongol conquests of China, o
 Kublai Khan as
 Mongols treated Yuan China as
 Confucianists, in particular, saw Yuan China as
Kublai Khan’s Yuan China, 1279-1368
 tribute collection
 accommodations to Chinese: o o o
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 Mongol sense of superiority preserved: o o o o o
Impacts of Yuan Rule
 promotion of interregional commerce o
 increased intercultural encounters & exchange o foreign merchants & officials visited Yuan China regularly o
 o technological diffusion
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Fall of the Yuan
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 Kublai’s successors without political & military talent
 failed invasions of o
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 Confucian scholar-gentry’s call for revolts by peasants o
 Ju Yuanzhang established o