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Ap World History Dbq Mongols

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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

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