The Ottoman Empire was ruled by Seljuk warrior nomads and their chief, Osman.
Genghis Khan The Mongols were herdsman, wealth and life relied on sheep, which provided sheepskin tents, milk, woolen clothing, and meat. They were once Successful raider and horseman. Their homeland Gobi Desert as well as their own language. During the twelfth century, Temujin (1162-1227) a Mongol chief became well known by 1206. After developing a successful army, he was given a new title "Genghis Khan" which stood for universal ruler in Mongol words. A powerful leader who was brutal…
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Robert W. Strayer Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources Second Edition Chapter 11 Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment (1200–1500) Copyright © 2013 by Bedford/St. Martin’s I. Looking Back and Around: The Long History of Pastoral Nomads A. The World of Pastoral Societies 1. Small populations on large amounts of land: Pastoralists were less productive than settled agriculturalists, resulting in smaller populations that required larger expanses of land. They…
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In 1578 the Mongol ruler Altan Khan bestowed the title Dalai Lama on Sonam Gyatso. The title was later applied retroactively to the two predecessors in his reincarnation line: Gendun Drup, founding abbot of Trashilhünpo and close disciple of Je Tsongkhapa; and Gendun Gyatso, abbot of Trashilhünpo, Drepung, and Sera.[4] The current 14th Dalai Lama and others seeking to assert the historical independence of Tibet believe that Altan Khan did not bestow a title as such, only intending to translate the…
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Test on Chapters 12-14 1. The period of political disorder and chaotic warfare that followed the Qin-Han era is referred to as the a. Era of Division. b. Time of Troubles. c. Jurchen invasion era. d. Mongol Conquest. e. Warring States era. 2. Which of the following statements concerning the situation at the end of the Qin-Han period is most accurate? a. Non-Chinese nomads ruled much of China and a foreign religion, Buddhism, eclipsed Confucian teachings. b. The central authority of the…
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Medieval Islam: Collision BETWEEN CHRISTIAN AND Muslim forces Islamic rulers Expansion of the Umayyad caliphate (661-750) Policies and division within the Abbasid caliphate (750-1258) Medieval Spain- Almoravids and Almohads Seljuk Turks Ayyubid caliphate (1169-1260) Collision between Christian and Muslim forces: Expansion of the territory led to conflict and conquest Spread of Islam into Iberian peninsula by 711: conquest by muslim. Increased strength of Christian forces by 1050 expressed…
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conquering, new religions rising, to the silk roads, the Mongols conquering, and the wide spread of different diseases with exploration. To start off, civilizations like the Greeks were powerful and conquered large amounts of land and once they captured them, the Greeks would influence their new land’s…
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in the history of the world. These barbarians were the Mongols. Their conquest of civilized society was frightening. They tore down scores of great cities. They slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people. Civilized people lived in terror of them. Some believed that Mongols ate humans. Some believed that Mongol ponies were big enough to eat trees. It seemed that no story about the Mongols was too fantastic to believe. How were the Mongols able to conquer civilized societies? How did it all begin…
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Muslims believe that the religion of Islam has been present since the time of the prophet Adam. The Islamic world expanded to include people of the Islamic civilisation, inclusive of non-Muslims living in that civilisation. A century after the death of last Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Islamic empire extended from Spain in the west to Indus in the east. The subsequent empires such as those of the Abbasids, Fatimids, Almoravids, Seljukids, Ajuuraan, Adal and Warsangali in Somalia, Mughals in India…
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from the disease. Plagues deadly path would lead to the disease being called the Black Death which would spread throughout all of the Mongolian Empire, The disease would spread along the trade routes throughout Asia and would travel to Europe from merchants fleeing the infected Black Sea ports. Mongolian soldires would spread the disease into the interior of china. When the Plague ruptured in china, the ruling Mongols would have already became fragil by internal power struggles. The lands that were…
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the Shoguns would act as the most central ruler of their dominion. 16. $*Khanates The 4 Mongol kingdoms that were ruled by Chinggis Khan’s sons. They included the Golden Horde in western asia and east europe, the great khanate which became the Yuan Dynasty in China, the il khanate in Persia and the middle east, and the Chagati khanate in central asia 17. $*Chinggis KhanThe head of the nomadic Mongol Empire, or Khagan, who lead the mongolian conquest across Asia and the Silk Road and established Karakorum as the…
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