Kubla Khan

When Marco and his family reached China he entered the land of a powerful Mongol leader, Khubilai Khan, who sent Marco on many trips across the land. After 17 years of being in China, Marco and his family stated the voyage home, when Marco arrived back in Europe, he shared the crazy stories he encountered; he was also the first person to introduce the…

The Mongols were a group of nomadic tribes occupying the Eurasian Steppe. Genghis Khan united these tribes in the 13th century and quickly established a large empire. This empire became the largest land empire in history. Although the Mongolian Invasions of the 13th Century CE increased trade and aided in the cross-cultural pollination of ideas and cuisine, these achievements came at the expense of upwards of fifty million lives during the span of their brutal conquests. The Mongolian…

Evidence of this is in document # 6 “From the beginnings of the Mongol empire, The Mongol Khans fostered trade and sponsored numerous caravans. The very size of the Mongol empire increased the wider dissemination of goods and ideas throughout Eurasia as merchants and others could now travel from one end of the empire to the other with greater…

Great Chinggis Khan Throughout history there have been many leaders deemed great while others are deemed as cruel. It is their affects on history that determines if they are either a great ruler or a tragedy. With the rise and fall of many leaders it is they their accomplishments and how they had ruled that determines their worth. In the 13th century a leader had emerged, to some he was Great whereas for others he was a nightmare. This man was Chinggis Khan, or known as Genghis Khan by the West,…

to an account of the explorer Marco Polo there various traits of Mongolia and China that were similar to those of the civilizations of Europe. When Marco Polo travel across the Silk Roads to Mongolia and China, which was under the ruling of Kublai Khan, he stayed in the city of Kinsay. In Kinsay, Marco Polo observed that in the city there were twelve guilds which specialized in different crafts and that each of those guilds had twelve thousand households in their employment as workmen. The…

Bangladesh Case Study by: Christie Rosengren, Jessie Patterson, Lara Carpenter, Louisa Matheny, Nathan Toenjes Introduction The small tropical country of Bangladesh is the result of a bitter civil war that divided the country of Pakistan into two nations. The violence of this war is rated as one of the top 5 genocides in the twentieth century by The Guinness Book of Records. Mass murder committed by the Pakistani Army against millions of Bengalis led to East Pakistan seceding from the West…

Despite their negative image and military tactics, first hand accounts of the empire and dealings with the Khans from the thirteenth century emissaries Juviani, William of Rubruck, and Marco Polo have…

Imagine this, you are a Chinese peasant living in the 1200s minding your own business farming; then suddenly, flaming arrows are fly out of nowhere, the sound of war horns roar in the distance and mounted warriors are riding around slaughtering your fellow townspeople. Who are these evil people? They are the Mongols! Not only will they kill your townspeople, but also will end up killing millions of people across Eurasia and create the largest land empire in history. One may think that this is…

Genghis Khan Throughout time, there has been many influential people to impact history. From Caesar to Alexander the Great, many ruled empires across the world with great power. Unlike most empires, none were in comparison to the empire of the great Mongolian Emperor, Genghis Khan. The name Genghis Khan, still to this day, strikes fear into the minds of people. Known for being one of the most terrifying and savage forces to mankind, there is a lot to be understood about the emperor Khan, in…

Explain the apparent military decline of East Asia after 1700 East Asia had been regarded as one of the most military advanced region of the globe since the early firearms were invented by the Chinese before the Europeans perfected them. Indeed, the earliest known formula for gunpowder is found in a Chinese work dating from the 800s. This allowed the Chinese to apply it to warfare through producing a variety of gunpowder weapons among them rockets, bombs, mines, and rockets before inventing the…