Upload
learningsmart
View
1.609
Download
3
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Lecture slides on the rise of the Mongol Empire
Citation preview
Nomads and Mongols:Did Nomadic expansion improve the Eurasian world?
AP World History
Richard Smart
Oakland Mills High School
Periodization and Context:Period 2...
In the west… 7th Century – Rise of
Islam Ummayad Caliphate
661CE-750CE Abbasid Caliphate
750CE-1258CE
Seljuk Turks 1071CE-1243CE
In the east… Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty 618CE-
907CE Song Dynasty 960CE-
1279CE
Jurchen 1115CE-1234CE
Nomads through time...
Pastoral Societies Horse mounted archers Tribal structure
Xiongnu Huns Turks
Causes of Nomadic Success
TechnologyStirrupArcheryHorses
Chinese InfluenceSiege
weaponry Ideology
Tribute not dominance
Mongol Expansion
1204 Chinggis unites Mongols 1227 Chinggis Dies 1237 Russia 1240 Repulsed in Hungary 1258 Destruction of Baghdad 1260 Defeated by Mamluks 1279 Repulsed in Vietnam and Japan
Mongol States
Golden Horde Caucasus Tribute from Russia
Ilkhanate Persia Assimilation Islam Collapse (1335) Timur (1405)
Chagatai Central Asia Nomadic
Yuan Dynasty China Rejection of civil
service exams Religious tolerance Failure in Vietnam &
Japan Ming China (1368)
Consequences of Nomadic Expansion Trade
Pax Mongolica Disease
Bubonic Plague (1300s) End of Post Classical Empires
Song Abbasid
Long-term trends Rise of Gunpowder Empires (Post Tamerlane) Russian isolation (Post Mongols) Voyages of exploration