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
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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
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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
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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)