HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kublai Khan, Genghis Khan, Pax Mongolica
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When we say moment, we are referring to relatively brief span of time - a couple of centuries. Within this span of time, conjuncture between specific historical processes. What enables mongols to achieve governance and military conquests. Historians do not focus on the mongols or nomadic groups in general: because they are very good at blending in with the backgrounds, historians believe that they are just brutes that have not contributed to society. Historians have tended to write about things that they are familiar with. No accident that the pathogens took their toll during the greatest expanse of the. Enormous movement of people during mongolian conquests. Sources: majority of sources are from the outsiders", people from outside focus on things that people in that society may miss out on. Given what we know about nomadic societies, and how limited sources they have, how did. Adept at forming friendships and networks and alliances available.
