What was the largest empire in the history of mankind? Nope…not the Romans Close..but not...

What was the largest empire in the history of mankind?

Nope…not the RomansClose..but not Alexander’s Greek Hellenistic

EmpirePersians….nahNot the Mughals…or the Ottomons…No, Not the Aztecs…

Mongols

• By total area: British Empire (1922), 33.7 million square km spread all over the world

• By contiguous (unbroken) area: Mongol Empire (ca 1300), 33.0 million sq. km

• By% of world population: Persian Empire (ca. 480 BC), 44%

• By % of world GDP: USA (1945) 33%

Matching

• 1. Ghengiz Khan A. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in

• 2. Kublai Khan B. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing

• 3. Zhu Yuanzhang C. United the various Mongol Tribes

• 4. Ming Dynasty D. Age of Mongol rule in China

• 5. Yuan Dynasty E. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall

Matching

• 1. Ghengiz Khan A. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in

• 2. Kublai Khan B. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing

• 3. Zhu Yuanzhang C. United the various Mongol Tribes

• 4. Ming Dynasty D. Age of Mongol rule in China

• 5. Yuan Dynasty E. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall

Skilled horsemen

• Expert warriors on horseback

Rival Mongol clans fought each other

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Genghiz Khan

• The chieftain that united all the Mongol clans

The Golden Horde

Forced conquered people to pay

TRIBUTE!

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Walled cities• Mongols had a

problem getting inside the walled cities of China

• Incorporated canons in his arsenal

Territories

• Mongols took northern China, Russia, and Muslim lands

Pax Mongolia

• What does PAX mean?

• Protected the road across Eurasia

• Cultural diffusion

Kublai Khan

• Genghiz Khan’s grandson• Took over the Song dynasty

You with us? What are the 6 Chinese dynasties you

learned this year? Did you read? Describe the dynasty

created by Kublai Khan- What is the next Dynasty that claims the

“mandate of heaven” after Kublai Khan dies?

Who is one famous person that comes out of the Ming dynasty?

Yuan Dynasty

• Mongol dynasty• Only allowed Mongols

in the military and government

Marco Polo

• Visits China during Kublai Khan’s rule

Ming Dynasty

• The Yuan Dynasty is overthrown by the Ming dynasty– Chinese dynasty– Restored the civil

service test, and

Confucian Ideals

Zheng He

• 1405• 62 large ships &

hundreds of smaller ships

• 25,000 sailors• Prime directive: to

promote trade and collect tribute

South East Asia

• S.E. Asia • India• Red Sea• Persian

Gulf

Zheng He dies

• 1433• Ming outlaws sea-

ship building– Why?

Why?

• High cost & little return

• Ethnocentrism

60 years later…..

• Christopher Columbus sails from Spain