HIST1087 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chagatai Khanate, Genghis Khan, Yuan Dynasty
Document Summary
The post-mongol empires: ottoman, safavid, mughal, ming, and russian. Ve great empires of eurasia constituted the most populous, powerful, and wealthy states in the early modern world. Timur is one of the great conquerors in history. 4 states most powerful wan dynasty in china closely aligned with persia when kublai khan dies, di erent pieces go there own ways golden hoarde originally born in the mongal invasions of the 1230s and 1240s. Ilkhanate ilkhanate acculturates quickly, join persian culture add military power of turkic peoples. Chagatai khanate smallest and most militarily disruptive and powerful (counter intuitive) right on tip of the silk roads mixed urban civilization with continued nomadism nomadic miliarty system continued to ourish the source of 2 great empires. Samarkand - timur"s capital provides this place the opportunity to be a empires capital. Early modern empires - empires that did globalization for the rst time.
