Do you think the good connection between West and East of the world was because of Mongols? The Mongol Empire existed during the 13th and 14th century. It was the largest contiguous land empire in history. Some say Mongols were completely destructive barbarians. They were seen as threat to civilizations and people throughout Europe and Asia. They are wrong because Mongols were encouragers of cultural growth and diffusion. Mongols encouraged growth of culture of other places. Mongols established unity of China by renovating Grand Canal and building dams and dikes. The Mongol connection between different part of Asia helped the diffusion of cultures using trade between Central Asia and Middle East (Document 2). They were encouragers of culture because they allowed the conquered countries to have their own officials, for example Chinese bureaucrats still did their jobs (Document 3). After Mongols conquering Russia, Russians adopted Asian culture and character traits. Mongols encouraged the Russian Orthodox Church, which shows culture growth. Mongols were encouragers of cultural growth because Alexander Nevskii, …show more content…
Europeans were able to understand the culture, beliefs, values, attitudes and institutions because of Mongols large area connecting Europe and Asia. The cultural growth of Asia by Mongols helped Europeans to accept Asian a permanent place in natural order of things (Document 7). Political and economical relationship across Eurasia was a useful exchange of peoples and culture. Mongol capital at Karakorum was a cosmopolitan city with places of worship for Buddhist, Muslims, Christians and Daoists. Marriage of Mongols rulers to Christian women, shows Mongols were encouragers of cultural diffusion. Control over large area from Europe to Asia, helped Chinese technology like gunpowder, printing and compass to get into Europe (Document 8). Mongols were encouragers of cultural growth and
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
Until the 12th and 13th centuries, cross-cultural interactions were unprolonged and less in number when compared to later centuries. However, the assimilation of much of the Eurasian landmass into the Mongol empire as well as the later European exploration of the Americas contributed to the creation of prolonged global connections in which the world’s major continents were connected. Two of the most notable developments include the caravel, which aided European explorers in their conquest of the Americas, and the stirrup and composite bow, which the Mongols used to conquer Eurasia and eventually led to the Pax Mongolica. These technological developments had major effects on both societies.
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.
So when the Mongols took control of China, they had to tolerate certain religions to help keep up their society so the Chinese wouldn’t revolt. Tolerating many religions also helped spread the religions once time for trade came around. Once foreign people started coming, the religion had been adopted by those people, and brought back to their lands. This is how almost every culture and everything spreads throughout the world. Although the Mongols resisted assimilation between their culture and the Chinese, they still tolerated certain religions. Document 6 says “An important legacy of the Mongols’ reign in China was their support of many religions.” The support of many religions is an important positive effect the Mongols left on Eurasia because these religions are being spread across Eurasia through trade, and because of this more religions were gaining more supporters across different regions. More supporters for a religion indicates it is being successfully spread to other places, and the religion is being successfully embraced into the society it is being spread too. The support of more religions was also a positive effect the Mongols left on Eurasia because by adopting Islamic people, it created peace with other countries. “The Mongols also recruited and employed Islamic financial administrators- a move that led to good relations with the Islamic world beyond China, in particular with Persia and West
The Mongols came about when Genghis Khan united all of the Mongol tribes and clans, creating an army of up to 125,000 whose main goal was to conquer. One of his more effective tactics was enemies were treated fairly unless they resisted. Ones who resisted were killed. Kublai Khan was successful in reuniting the empire prior to a power struggle but was able to conquer all of China by 1276. However, he was not successful in conquering Japan by sea because of harsh storms and shipwrecks. Other countries Mongols had taken over included, Tibet, Persia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and eastern Germany. People taken over by the Mongols had no choice to cooperate because failure to would result in them being slaughtered. Genghis Khan granted religious
Positively, the Mongols were great conquerors and they respected each other, negatively, they brutally harmed people and valuables in the process. Charles J. Halperin wonderfully stated, “The Mongol Empire made significant contributions to the political institutions, economic development, and cultural diversity of many lands. No history of the Mongol Empire dwells only on Mongol destruction, can be satisfactory” (Doc 6). The history of the Mongols can’t only be about the negativity that they caused to society as the Mongols had a more positive impact rather than a negative impact. The Mongols created a vast empire throughout Eurasia, but it wasn’t worth killing over 5 million people in the process. In the end, as a result of the vast empire, they weren’t able to control it. Eventually, the Mongol empire and became a part of the society in the area and vanished
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
Historically speaking, a large portion of the Mongol influence was from their military campaigns across the Eurasian continent. A large portion of the Mongol Empire’s legacy is derived from their military might. Lead by Genghis Khan, the Mongols controlled 4.86 million square miles, gaining land through vast military campaigns. According to Document 1, the size of the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan was larger than the next most successful military leader, Alexander the Great, who dominated less than half of the land the Mongols controlled. Therefore, it is only logical to attribute a large part of the Mongol Empire to their greatest accomplishment, militarily dominating the Eastern Hemisphere.
I think that the mongol empire influenced other cultures by having a greater cultural exchange. I think one of the biggest ways to influence cultures are by the act of the empire spreading. The Mongolian empire spread along campaign sea and the Pacific Ocean. By spreading they also captured some cultures from Asia , Europe and East Asia.
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 was a tremendous impact on the Future history in the time of 1206-1368. The Mongols had a general named Genghis Khan, however they had no true ruler. But, I will argue that they had a very negative impact on our history of Asia and the world today. The Mongols lived in the steppe of the Asian Plateau which was a good place for them. They did a lot of horrid things that cause us to lose the history of the past. Although this affected our learning status now, it’s just a minor problem to all they did in the past events. Others will say that they had a positive impact on our history, but this is just a quick article on why they are wrong.
They started a lot of things that governments do today. Like the fact that they were religiously tolerant. Like in document 4, it states, “An important legacy of the Mongols’ reign in China was their support of many religions. This evidence shows that they were religiously tolerant. This would mean a lot less conflicts and people would want to settle in this land.
Did you know that if one person in your group got in trouble, the whole group would have to pay for your mistake or in other words die? The Mongol empire caused more cultural destruction than cultural exchange. They caused more cultural destruction because of their military that often destroyed cities and killed a lot of people. The first reason they caused cultural destruction is because of the number of people they captured. The Mongols often captured people for many reasons, but one of the reasons is because some people wouldn't surrender to the Mongol empire.
The Mongols impacted civilizations all over the world. In the end though the Mongols blended into most civilizations they conquered,
Towards the end of the post classical period, during the early twelfth century new empires rose to power. Specifically, the Mongol Empire located in the steppes of Central Asia. The Mongol Empire was started by Genghis Khan who was part of a nomadic clan. Khan used his position as leader of the clan to unite all the clans in the area to create a very powerful army, which he then used to expand further and conquer empires such as China, Russia, the Middle East, and and the city of Baghdad creating the Mongol Empire. The Mongol Empire controlled the most land of any empire. As the Mongol Empire conquered new Empires they effected them through the environment, social classes, politically economically, and their culture. Two empires that the Mongol Empire had an effect drastically on was China and Russia politically and economically. The Mongol Empire improved China and Russia economically by facilitating trade routes stabilizing China economy and helped Russia semi-stable their economy. Politically the Mongol Empire enforced a system which united the people in China and helped Russia develop a political system indirectly.