Study Guide Bulliet, chapter 11 Western Eurasia, 12001500 SCOPE ...

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Bulliet, chapter 11

Western Eurasia, 1200­1500

SCOPE:

While China under the Song was prospering economically and undergoing a

great age of art and philosophy, a nomadic people in the grasslands beyond the Great

Wall began to build a new steppe empire and would soon launch the greatest age of

conquest yet seen by mankind. The leader of this process was a man named Temujin,

who would come to be known as Chinggis Khan, more commonly rendered as Genghis

Khan. This lecture recounts the story of Temujin’s rise to power over the Mongols and

their dramatic conquest of much of Eurasia in the 13

TH

century. The empire Temujin built

by the time of his death in 1227 extended from north China to Persia. His sons would

extend it even further, from Korea to the Ukraine and from Syria to Vietnam.

1.

Stresses of drought in Eurasia around 1000 C.E.

2.

Central Asian steppes & nomadism

3.

Mongol society ­­­ Scattered tribes of Mongols

a.

pastoralists

b.

kin/clan networks

c.

blood feuds

4.

Mongols and surpluses

5.

Mongols (nomads in general) and settled people ­­­ Slavery was one important

relationship. Slaves taken by nomadic groups were valuable both as labor and as

currency. Nomadic groups also lived off the tribute from sedentary peoples.

Nomads were independent, for they learned to restrict their diet and clothing to

what they could produce themselves. However, trade with sedentary groups was

important for what nomads could not produce, such as iron, grain, and cotton.