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    intellectual and spiritual leader of the Chinese Confucian community for the Song Dynasty. However,his life changed when the Mongol invasions occurred. Before the invasion, Liu Chenweng had to to pass the palace exam that was based on Confucism for him to secure a high-ranking job. He was accepted to be the headmaster job at Leanxi Academy that was close to his own home. When the Mongol invasions occur and ruled the the region of China, establishing the Yuan Dynasty by Kublai Khan after Genghis Khan's

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    are: the government between Africa and the Mongols, the religion between Africa and Greece, trade between Africa and China, and societies/social standards between Africa and China. The government in Africa was very different from the government of the Mongols. In Africa they chose to have a stateless society and the Mongols chose to govern by force and brutality. Africans had to trade with other societies so that they could improve their wealth. The Mongols didn’t trade, the went from town to town

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    their kinsmen and equals, and later amalgamated with them after the Avars had, in the eighth century, been defeated by Charlemagne and had retreated, some to Hungary and others to the Don country. From the fall of the Huns until the rise of the Mongols some thousand years later, the history of central Asia is simply a repetition of the same theme; some obscure sub-tribe would become important, win leadership over the others, and head new invasions of increasing complexity. The history of southern

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    China. At the beginning of this time period, the Mongols were a group of pastoral nomads in modern-day Mongolia who practiced a shamanistic religion. During this time, the Silk Road was extremely dangerous, and traders on the Silk Road were often endangered by the threat of bandits. During the course of this time period, the Mongols eventually conquered and united China. After they had done so, many of the Mongols adopted Buddhist beliefs. As the Mongols expanded their empire, they were able to secure

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    Genghis Khan united Mongol tribes and through conquest was able to bring peace and stability under Mongol rule and should be viewed with admiration instead infamy. Historically the Mongols were known as an almost unstoppable force that brought with it death and destruction all across Eurasia (Biran, Michal 2004). This long-standing view only offers a glimpse of the Mongol Empire and as a result Genghis Khan has been more comparable to figures such as Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union for his Empire’s

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    the Mongol Empire expanded to cover 9 million square miles. This empire spanned from Korea to Belarus and down to Persia. Genghis Khan established this vast empire, which was later led by his less successful children. The Mongol Empire lasted from 1206 AD to 1368 AD, during which time it expanded to become the world's largest empire. This vast empire began as a collection of nomadic tribes whose sole goal was to expand so that they could acquire more land and spread their empire. The Mongol Empires

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    things are actually very similar. The Mongol Empire is a lot more alike to the hit video game Super Mario Bros that is played today than it may seem. Both the Mongols and the Mario Bros conquered many different cities, or levels. Each of these empires used some form of cross cultural diffusion to spread ideas. However, for the Mongols death was a reality, while The Bros could regenerate themselves however many times they pleased, and never fully die. Both the Mongols and the Mario Bros conquered many

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    Believe it or not, the Mongols helped Moscow to not only become the most powerful city in Russia, but also to eventually unite the Russians against their foreign occupiers! This lesson explains how. !!!Founding Moscow Moscow was founded as one of many small city-states in what is now Western Russia and Ukraine. In fact, Moscow was one of the last ones founded, as it was first established as a landmark sometime during the twelfth century. This is late for the period, as the powerful cities of

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    the teachings of its founder, Muhammad the Prophet. The Mongol Empire was one of the largest trans-continental empires that existed in the 13th century. This empire originated in Central Asia, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, a Mongol tribe ruler. In this paper, I would be talking about how the spread of Islam and the rise of the Mongol Empire contributed to the formation and strengthening of the Afro-Eurasian network. Historically, Mongol Empire, known as the biggest land empire and the most

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    that the Mongol empire was culturally destructive? I do, here are my reasons why. My first reason for the Mongol Empire being culturally destructive is the conquerings that took place during the years 600 BCE- 1945. My second and third reasons are how unfair the captains of armies would be to soldiers, and that the codes of conduct were mostly in honor of men. These are three of my reasons that explain why the Mongol empire caused more destruction than exchange. My first reason for the Mongol Empire

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