Robert W. Strayer Ways of the World: A Brief Global History First Edition CHAPTER 12 Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment 1200–1500 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s Looking Back and Looking Around: The Long History of Pastoral Nomads • • • • The World of Pastoral Societies The Xiongnu: An Early Nomadic Empire The Arabs and Turks The Maasai of East Africa Break-Out: The Mongol Empire • From Temujin to Chinggis Khan: The Rise of the Mongol Empire • Explaining the Mongol Moment Encountering the Mongols: Comparing Three Cases • China and the Mongols • Persia and the Mongols • Russia and the Mongols The Mongol Empire as a Eurasian Network • • • • Toward a World Economy Diplomacy on a Eurasian Scale Cultural Exchange in the Mongol Realm The Plague: A Eurasian Pandemic Chapter 12 Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Movement, 1200–1500 • • • • • • • • • • • Map 12.1 The Mongol Empire (p. 342) Map 12.2 Trade and Disease in the Fourteenth Century (p. 355) Spot Map 12.1 The Xiongnu Confederacy (p. 338) Spot Map 12.2 The Masai of East Africa (p. 340) Chinggis Khan at Prayer (p. 332) The Scythians (p. 336) The Masai (p. 341) A Mongol Warrior (p. 346) Marco Polo and Khubilai Khan (p. 349) Mongol Russia (p. 352) The Plague (p. 357)