HIST 11051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Genghis Khan, Thumb Ring, Yuan Dynasty
28 Apr 2019
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The mongols made no technological breakthroughs, founded no new religions, wrote few books or dramas, and gave the world no new crops or methods of agriculture. Their own craftsmen could not weave cloth, cast metal, make pottery, or even bake bread. They manufactured neither porcelain nor pottery, painted no pictures, and built no buildings. Yet, as their army conquered culture after culture, they collected and passed all of these skills from one civilization to the next . The spreading of ideas, knowledge, and technology across cultures. The mongol conquest of china resulted in increased contact between china and the western world. Deep loyalty to kin groups (families, clans, tribes) Made it difficult to organize a society on a large scale. Mongol tribes forged together into a powerful alliance that built the largest empire known (under chinggis or ghengis khan) Had power - just as likely to be killed as men. Supervised birthing and breeding of animals & preparation of furs.
