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31 Cards in this Set
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dry grassland in eurasia
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steppe
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Mongol life
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raised horses & sheep
nomadic warriors yurts |
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mongol tents
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yurts
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Temujin
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unifies mongol clans
legend was born w/ blood in fist no mercy Genghis Khan wanted to conquer china - campeign of terror good military leader & administrator |
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mongol military organization
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groups of 10,000
brigades of 1,000 companies or 100 platoons of 10 |
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Mongol horsemanship
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3 - could ride for days
shoot backwards stirrup 120 miles/day |
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Mongol horsemanship
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3 - could ride for days
shoot backwards stirrup 120 miles/day |
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mongol armor
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leather, silk underwear - strong, warm - pull arror out
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mongol strategy
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retreat and attack
"dummy" warriors to make army seem bigger spies cruelty & terror |
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Khanates
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Khanate of the Great Khan - mongolia & China
Khanate of Changtai - C Asia Ilkhanate - persia Khanate of the Golden Horde - Russia |
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mongols did to conquered
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wiped out pop.
destroyed irrigation religios tolerence adopted cultures - split empire |
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Timur Lenk
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Timerlane
mongol spread Islam captial samarkand defeated ottomans @ Ankara died empire declined & conquered by turks |
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mongols did to conquered
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wiped out pop.
destroyed irrigation religios tolerence adopted cultures - split empire |
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Kubai khan
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great khan
grandson of genghis capital - Daida Sung china Yuan Dynasty Marco Polo beutful summer palace - Shangdu |
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Yuan China
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Kublai Khan
united foreign trade mongols live appart foreigners more trustworthy than chinese Pax Mongolica post roads invaded Japn 2x (lost) |
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end of Yuan China
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Kublai Khnan died
weak successor rebellions Ming Dynasty |
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Yan Jian
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united china
capital - Chang An title of emperor Wen Sui dynasty repaired great wall Grand Canal forced labor - unpop member of court strangled him peasant uprising |
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Grand Canal
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Yang Jian
linked Huang He & Yangtze linked food w/ cities forced labor |
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Li Yuan
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after Sui dyansy - peasant uprising
rebelious lord (Li Yuan)proclaimed self emperor Tang Dynasty |
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Tang Dynasty
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expanded borders
taizong civil service opened schools roads & canals - travel & trade better silk roads land reform |
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Tang peasants benifited
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land reform
lower taxes new types of rice & better methods -> more food -> pop. growth |
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Silk road
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culural diffusion
religion luxery goods |
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Taizong
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son of Li Yuan
miitary genius shrewd administrator centralized gov. expanded borders |
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civil cervice exams
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gov. positions
comfucian principals any male could take meritocracy |
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system where people chosed for talents not conections
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meritocracy
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empress Wu Jhao
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power behind throne
only women in chian to rule in own right controled korea not supported by aristocracy husband - Gaozong |
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Chang An
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tang capital
largest city in world wide, tree-shaded avenues 2 market squares acrobats, jugglers, dancer performed in streets polo |
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Tang Poets
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Du Fu - harships of war, condemned court life
Li Bo - Daoism - harmony w/ nature, pleasure of life |
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end of Tang dynasty
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lost territory to arab invadors
gov. corruption & taxes rebels burned capital & killed emperor |
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end of tang dynasty
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lost territory to arab invadors
gov. corruption & taxes rebels burned capital & killed emperor |
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Song dynasty & mongols
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tribute to mongols for peace
failed attacked north fled to S new capital Hang Zhou |
