Considering the Importance of the Mongol Empire: What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history? How would you assess the perspective of history toward the Mongols?

Considering the Importance of the Mongol Empire: What accounts for the often negative attitudes

of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history? How would you assess the perspective of history toward the Mongols? What is so unique about the Mongols that allowed them to be so powerful yet, they remained pastoral? In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe? In what respects did it foster Eurasian integration? Why did the Mongol Empire last only a relatively short time? In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble previous empires (Arab, Roman, Chinese, or the Greek empire of Alexander, for example), and in what ways did it differ from them?