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Mongol Empire in Global Context
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Mongol Empire in Global ContextBecoming “The World”
● 1000-1300 CE
● Crisscrossing of people, goods, money, and ideas
○ Trade shifted from land to sea routes– expansion of coastal cities
○ Worlds 4 major cultural spheres: China, India, the Islamic world, and
Europe
○ The Mongol Empire
● Unified “Afro-Eurasia”
The Mongols
● C. Asian ethnographic group
○ Forest and steppe peoples
● Mongolian Plateau/European Steppe
● Pastoral nomadism
● Homeland: Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR,
China)
● “Tartars”
Chinggis Khan (ca. 1162-1227)
● Aka Genghis
● Born as Temujin, son of a tribal leader– The Secret History of the Mongols
(1252)
● Unified Mongol tribes into a single confederation
● 1206: made Chinggis Khan (universal ruler)-- Polo’s account (Prester John)
● Mongol writing system (Uyghur script) religious tolerance, etc
Chinggis’s Conquests
● 1206-1227: Region of Chinggis Khan
● 1205-1209: Conquest of Western Xia
● 1211-1215: 1st campaign against Jurchen Zhongdu (Beijing)
● 1210-1220: Conquest of Western Liao
● 1219-1221: Conquest of Persia
● 1227: Chinggi’s death (army numbered 127,000-130,000: cf. pop. 2.5 mill.)
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