The Mongols: The Mongol Legacy In Russia

One of the reasons the Mongol nomads had a prominent and menacing effect on Afro Eurasia was their state building strategies. After conquering cities, they appointed the agents in each of the cities to govern the city, as seen in Document 6. The ruler, Chinggis Khan, had respect for loyalty; he usually made deals with the conquered cities, which benefited both sides. There are also many places of worships, as mentioned in Document 7. There were multiple churches, and mosques. It is true that the Mongol nomads were highly cosmopolitan which helped with state building and that as a result, effected Afro Eurasia by introducing more people. Document 3 contains valuable sources of information about Russia during the Mongol era. It described the Mongols as destructive invaders from the East and lashes out particularly at the Tartars for damaging cities and sacred places. During the fourteenth century, Russian preoccupation

Some people would say the Mongols were a key development to civilization. However, the progress they made is nothing compared to their cruelty and the process they used to conquer the majority of Asia and parts of the Middle East. The Mongols were originally a small, nomadic tribe that originated from the steppes of Central Asia. The tribe placed little value on objects, considering they moved around in yurts and hardly settled. Led by Genghis Khan, they conquered land worth double the size of the Roman Empire. The Mongols were greedy, bloodthirsty barbarians who had little to no regard for human life. They went to unthinkable lengths to conquer land while destroying countless ancient cities.

The positive aspects of the Mongol conquest were surprisingly vast and extensive. The Mongols helped unify an expansive empire through a network of communication channels- inspired from the posts of their military. This system spread across Asia and Europe, a larger area than any empire thus far had to control. Also, the Mongols were peaceful with these conquests, being open to religious practices of the conquered. This, possibly, was in accordance to their ruler, Chinggis Khan, who often preached about a lenient rule for cultures out of respect as he often respected the practices of those he conquered. To continue, the Mongols helped unify the empire through a writing system and mail system, which they called “Yam”. On the other hand, the Mongols were also very destructive and brutal in regards to their conquests. The Mongols pillaged and destroyed cities, raping the women and killing most of the men. They only kept the highest

In the dictionary the definition of the Mongols is “a native or inhabitant of Mongolia” (Webster). Mongols are much more than just inhabitants of Mongolia. They were great conquerors but brutally barbaric. The Mongol empire ruled from the 13th century to the mid 14th century (McDougal Littel). Genghis Khan and his descendants accomplished a lot, but the civilians faced many hardships. It seems as if they came and left in a matter of only a couple of years. The legacy of the Mongols should be evaluated based on positive and negative contributions to society. Positively, the conquerors were quite successful as they acquired land all throughout Eurasia. Negatively, they ferociously harmed people and valuables in the process.

Document #6 talks about people adapting to the Mongol Empire and the benefits of the silk industry. The Mongols did a lot for china for example their silk, the people of china liked silk but the problem was that the deliverers kept getting murdered and the silk stolen so the mongols lent a hand and created the Silk Road where people could walk without any thought about thieves or murderers coming for what they have because they feared Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan killed the people that stole or murdered on the silk road and their families, in other words “if you saw something someone dropped nobody touched it said Document

During the 13th-14th century the Mongols conquered a vast amount of land through their advanced military strategies and ruthless spirit in battle, causing their empire to immensely expand. Two regions in which the Mongols conquered were China and Russia, while both territories were under Mongol control the regions were ruled differently. Thus, the influence of the political impact Mongol rule had on the Chinese was intensely more significant in contrast to the effect on the Russians, while on the contrary there economical effects for quite similar.

The Mongols were nomadic pastoralists who originated in the Eurasian steppes but eventually conquered the largest contiguous empire in history. The first ruler Genghis Khan was able to unite the loosely-bound nomadic clans in 1206 AD and begin seizing land through ingenious military tactics such as base-10 warrior organization, trickery, and terror. Later, his grandson Kublai Khan continued conquering new land and adding it to their vast yet relatively decentralized government. Although there were a few positive effects of Mongol rule, they still had an overall negative impact on Eurasia because of the large quantities of deaths they caused and their weakening of Chinese power in their own government.

The Mongols are a group of men and some women who took over China, and united the largest empire in the world history. They did this in many ways, some positive and some negative, using smart tactics to make their way to ruling the empire. Nevertheless, the Mongols had a more positive impact than negative by influencing transportation and communication, economic diversity, and politics in the world around them for many years.

The Mongol Empire, an infamous empire in due to its oppressively powerful army, had an unavoidable influence on Eurasia including both positive effects, such as advancing trade and production of goods in less advanced societies (doc 5) as well as laying a powerful and protective influence on a number of societies (doc 2), and negative effects, being savagely murderous towards those societies in their path (doc 1), destroying important structures and cities of other societies (doc 7), and aggressively demanding a tribute be paid to them from Christian societies and others (doc 9), as well as effects that are considered neither negative nor positive effects, examples being that the Khan leader did not convert to Christianity when confronted

1. The Mongols really did reinvigorate cross-Eurasian trade. The Silk Road trading routes that had existed for about 1000 years by the time the Mongols made the scene had fallen into disuse, but the Mongols valued trade because they could tax it, and they did a great job of keeping their empire safe.

With the invasion of the Mongols, they interrupted many great post classical civilizations but at the same time, they also renewed and extended the global network. The Mongols were the mightiest war machine around during the time period of 600-1450 C.E. and they greatly affected China and Russia both politically and economically. Politically, religions were tolerated and there was centralized power in both regions. However, the Mongols allowed Russia to govern themselves with the help of Russian princes whereas China was under direct Mongol rule. Russia and China remained similar economically because both populations were taxed by the Mongols and safe travel on the Silk Road encouraged international trade. On the other hand, due to

Han collapsed because of many reasons but mainly I’ll focus on the plaques and the death of Genghis Khan. When plaques led it’s way to China a lot of people died and it was a disaster. The second reason to the fall of Mongol empire was when Genghis Khan died the empire split into many parts and went their own path. Genghis Khan: He was the founder of Mongol empire which became the largest empire.

Although the Mongols conquered most of the known world, they also helped to improve the lives of those they conquered making significant contributions to the political institutions, economic development, and cultural diversity of many lands. In China the (Mongol) Yuan emperors built canals to improve transportation and communication.(Doc J) Barbarians are frowned upon as uneducated people. It is unjust to describe the Mongols as barbaric because they made Asia more civilized and advanced . The Great Khan also developed the system of relay stations which aquired 200,000 horses stabled at posts for the special use of the messangers.(Doc L) This stupendous organization made is easier for the Great Khan to receive immediate news. Over the course, Mongol leaders often converted to the region's dominant religions- Christianity, Islam, or Buddhism.(Doc M) This clearly shows that the Mongols accepted all religions. The city of Karacorum had two districts: the Moslem's quarter where the markets are and the other district of the Chinese who were all craftsmen.(Doc G) The Mongol cities were highly organized into districts and had some kind of social hierarchy. They also traded for centuries

The Mongols controlled a vast area of land. They needed a sort of political structure to be able to rule over the population. The Mongols had two codes of laws. One was the Mongol Law, or the Yasa. There was also the Bilik.

The start of the Mongol Empire began as a system of nomadic pastoralists who were extremely well experienced horsemen and traveled with their flocks of sheep, goats, cattle, and horses over the vast steppes of the prairielands of Central Asia. At the start of the Mongols rise to supremacy was the formation of tribal coalition known as “All the Mongols” (Saunders 1971) While the early tribal coalition was successful at establishing itself as a power in Manchuria and North China, it wasn’t until the rise of a well-known figure did the Mongols ascend to a force to fear and respect. That