MONGOLS 1. ONE OF THE GREATEST EFFECTS OF MONGOL INVASIONS ON THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAS WHEN THE MONGOLS CAPTURED BAGHDAD AND ENDED SELJUK TURK RULE. THEIR CONTROL FELL APART BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT RULE THE DISTANT REGION, ALLOWING THE OTTOMAN TURKS TO COME TO POWER. 2. DISTANCE WAS A MAJOR FACTOR THAT LIMITED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONGOLIAN CIVILIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 3. ONE OF THE MAJOR GENERALIZATION ABOUT THE MONGOLS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES WAS THE SPREAD ACROSS EURASIA TO BECOME ONE OF THE LARGEST EMPIRES IN HISTORY. ISLAM 1. GROWTH OF COMMERCE AND TRADE IN EAST AFRICA, NEW ARAB TRADING SETTLEMENTS EMERGE ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA, AND NEW LANGUAGE BLENDED FROM BANTU AND ARABIC ARE THE EFFECTS OF THE SPREAD ISLAM. 2. THE WAYS THAT ISLAM INFLUENCED LAW AND GOVERNMENT IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES, WERE THROUGH REGULATING FAMILY LIFE AND BUSINESS MATTERS, REGUIRED A TAX TO HELP THE POOR AND TAX TO HELP THE POOR. 3. ALGEBRA, MEDICAL ADVANCES AND ASTROLABE WERE DEVELOPED IN THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATES. 4. MUSLIMS BROUGHT WEALTH TO THE PEOPLE IN ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA, THROUGH THEIR EXTENSIVE TRADE NETWORK. ISLAM CONTINUE 5. THE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF THE CALIPHATES AFFECTED TRADE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN BY CONTROLLING TRADE IN MUCH OF THE NORTHWESTERN INDIAN OCEAN AND THE ARABIAN SEA. 6. THE PURPOSE OF THE QADIS AND IMAMS IN ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT WAS TO INTERPRET LAWS. 7. ABBASID CALIPHATE WAS TO BAGHDAD AS WAS FATIMID CALIPHATE TO CAIRO. CHINA 1. THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES THAT BEGAN IN TANG OR MING CHINA WERE; TRIGONOMETRY, GUNPOWDER AND MAGNETIC COMPASS. 2. KUBLAI KHAN RULED OVER THE CHINESE PEOPLE WITHOUT BRUTALITY FROM 1279 AND LAYED A FOUNDATION FOR THE PEOPLE HE CONQUERED IN A GRAND EMPIRE. RELIGION 1. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RELIGION SIKHISM ARE; KHALSA, THE FIVE K’S, MONOTHEISTIC AND GURU NANAK DEV. 2. THE MAIN WAY THE SOCIETIES OF ISLAM AND HINDU CAME TOGETHER DURING THIS ERA WAS THROUGH INVASIONS.