Central Asia

The first volume contains the account of the Mongol rulers beginning with Genghis Khan. The second volume covers Uljaitu’s life as well as a general history of the Eurasian people that the Mongols encountered in China, India, Pre-Islamic Era, Central Asia, and the Steppe as well as the Jews, the Muslims, and the Christians. The third volume contained a geographical and topographical description of the globe at that time, highway information of the Mongol Empires, and a list of postal routes…

The Silk Road played a major role in the spread of music and religions. Religion has been one of the most important cultural forces to promote the distribution of music along the Silk Road (Music of the Silk Roads). Like religion, music spreads beyond its land of origin because just like when people bring their own faith and rituals with music they bring their own style (Music of the Silk Roads). Religions via the Silk Road include: Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manicheism, and Nestorianism.…

The Silk Road from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. served an extremely important role for the economics of Asia and Europe because it connected empires from the east to the west. While the trade first created for the purpose of trading between Romans Empires and Han Dynasty. Over time, the Silk Road expanded from trading purpose to the spreading of cultures, religions, technology, and as well as epidemic diseases such as the Bubonic Plague. However, goods, and merchants were still traveled along the…

The Silk Road, one of the largest and most influential trade routes in the world, has had a massive effect on not only china but a large portion of the world. It stretched from china through to India, Persia, Arabia and Europe and operated from around 114 BCE to 1450 CE. Not only material goods were exchanged, as religions, philosophies, technology and diseases were traded during the length of the Silk Road’s operation. This enormous trade route opened up opportunities for technology, as…

“heartsick”. The author’s tone sounds bitterness in his sentence about how people have categorized Mazari as a refugee and they are treating him like a refugee, “ I was not merely one of the hundreds of down-at-heel nuisance from some hellhole in Central Asia”. Also the word “hellhole” is emphasised in this sentence as he is describes his some as a hellhole and “hellhole” is a word that people associate misery and a place we would rather not be in…

how does it create tensions? How does long-distance trade contribute to both the expansion of empires and the "fall" of empires? The advantages of the Silk Roads are that the Silk Roads is that it connected the world. The trade route connected Central Asia, the Mediterranean, China, and Japan. This allowed for the exchange of ideas and technologies. Another advantage is that it had an economic impact on many countries. As the Silk road grew, more people started working as merchants and they…

considered by some scholars to have been “the greatest of centuries”, in truth to some notable cultural highlights of major importance. During this time period arose to the world, the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, the Mongols. The Mongols conquered places in Russia , Northern China, Persia and Central Asia. Yet in their triumphs the Mongols were and still are classified as the most barbaric of the “barbarians” to have ever reigned over the world, because of the way in which they obtained…

ever rule. The Mongols were ruled by Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan, who is the grandson of Genghis. They ruled somewhere between 1200 and 1360 B.C. The Mongols ruled for a very short period of time, but ruled very effectively. They ruled throughout central Asia and China. The Mongols made a very positive impact on the world. For example, they allowed religious freedom, invented new war techniques, and were a very peaceful empire inside their empire. The Mongols allowed something that wasn’t…

How Barbaric Were the Mongols I believe that the Mongols were not as barbaric as the reputation they were given from their life styles, rules, to their war tactics. The Mongols started out as a small tribe from the steppes of central Asia, living in yurts and were simple nomadic people. A boy named, Temuchin was born on the Mongolian plains in 1167. His dad was poisoned and spent majority of his teenage life fighting and then he wanted to bring the Mongol clans under one leadership. In 1206,…

grasslands of central Asia and they lived in moveable houses that they called yurts. The people knew little about mining and they didntdid not care anything about farming. But one person changed it all, this person change the way the Mongolians worked and his name Temuchin. Temuchin was born in 1167 on the Mongolian plains and in 1206 he won the leadership of the group and then was given the name Genghis Khan and he began to grow larger. The Mongols army swept across much of Asia, the Middle…