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 Using
your book 201 in your book –
 What natural barrier separates Mongolia
from China?
 What man-made barrier separates
Mongolia from China?
SSWH4 The student will analyze the
importance of the Byzantine and
Mongol empires between 450 CE
and 1500 CE
 Dry
grassland –
steppe
 Pastoralist– herd
domesticated
animals
 Seasonal nomadism
 Great
horsemen
 Clans – kinship groups
 Battle over access to grass and water
 Sometimes came together to fight
 What
is happening
elsewhere?
 Fourth Crusade –
Christians sack
Constantinople
 Islamic Abbasid
Empire loses land to
Mongols
 Sundiata comes to
power in Mali
 1200
CE (AD) –
Temujin unifies
Mongols
 AKA Genghis Khan!
 1225 Controlled
Central Asia
 1227 dies of illness
 Strong
organizer
 Gifted Strategist
 Used cruelty as a weapon
 Created
history!
largest unified land empire in
 Sons
and grandsons peacefully divide
empire
 Khanate of Great Khan (Mongolia/China)
 Khanate of Chagatai (Central Asia)
 Ilkhanate (Persia)
 Khanate of the Golden Horde (Russia)
 Mongol
Peace
 1200-1300 CE
 Very tolerant of
others
 Safe passage for
trade, travelers,
missionaries – Silk
Roads thrive!
 Bubonic plagues?!
 1260
– Genghis’
grandson
 Unites China for first
time in 300 years
(Yuan Dynasty)
 Not nomadic…
 Failed to invade
Japan because of
huge storm
 Venetian
trader
(Italian)
 Visits Kubla’s
kingdom
 Writes about his visit
 China
– Great Khan Khanate (Yuan
Dynsasty)  leads to Ming dynasty
 Russia – Golden Horde Khanate 
overthrown by Ivan III
 Ilkhanate of Persia  Ottoman Turks
 Silk
Roads close
 Russia unified
 Japan gains military power
 Mughal Empire in India rises to power
 China explores and grows powerful
 South
Park Mongolians…