How Did Nomads Affect China

Nomads have influenced Europe and China socially, politically, and economically due to them helping spread there ideas on the government, also by introducing other countries to the vast resources that the place they conquered had and by sometimes transferring the power from being passed down by heritage to actually to people who studied and knew how to rule ,however, not all the time when a nomadic tribe invaded/conquered a territory they actually helped the empire sometimes all they did was further destroy it like the Mongols and some Germanic tribes. Nomads have long since lived on the Eurasia continent, however, during the late 16th hundreds due to the increase in civilized settlements being created nomads and civilized settlements began constantly fighting over the ownership of the …show more content…
The Manchus unlike the Mongols didn’t destroy much of China and instead adopted much of the elements of Chinese culture before they took over. The Saxons, Angles, Franks, Jutes, Vandals and Visigoths were Germanic tribes that lived in Europe but where pushed into the civilized settlements that inhabited most of Europe to avoid the oncoming Mongolian army and in the end lead to the downfall of the Roman Empire. When the Mongols finally did end up conquering China in 1234 they ended up destroying more than half of China but also brought with them the Yuan Dynasty. During the time China was under the Mongolian rule it soon got the attention of the European travelers and merchants due to China being praised by various ‘reports’ created by other traders and merchants, the most famous of those would be the report made by Marco Polo after he traveled through China .One report of the Mongols impact on China written in the 13th Century by a Persian historian stated, “With one stroke a world which billowed with fertility was laid desolate, and the regions thereof became a desert, and the greater part of the living, dead, and their skin and