Inayat Khan

The Mongols caused death and destruction to whatever came its way. These Barbarians captured land and killed everything in sight in the 13th century. Barbarians is a word to describe a negative meaning, referring to people who were savage and evil. This meaning is what the Mongols portrayed through their actions of mass destruction. The Mongols started off by being nomadic people, but a leader arised. A boy named Temuchin brought to bring the Mongols to a lead, and to grow larger. He soon sent…

I believe that the Mongols were barbaric and very destructive and unforgiving people. Although they were barbaric, they united Eurasia and spread ideas and were very intelligent. One reason why they were barbaric is how they ruled in battle. While they were in battle, the Mongols had one person in charge of 10 warriors and then one person in charge of 10 of those groups of ten (100) and then ten of those ten (1000) and genghis would tell only a few people what to do and it would be a chain…

Marco Polo was one of the first and most famous Europeans to travel to Asia during the Middle Ages. Marco polo traveled farther than anyone during his 24-year journey along the Silk Road, reaching China and Mongolia where he became a friend of Kublai Khan. 4 Marco Polo is a well known explorer from venice in Italy. He was Born around 1254 in Venice and he Died January 8 1324 Venice. Marco's uncle and father were successful jewel merchants Niccolo and Maffeo Polo and they were in asia…

Many people today have heard of Genghis Khan, and what he’s done. Not as many know how he did it though. Genghis Khan’s empire was bigger than the contiguous U.S. Before he became Genghis Khan, he was born Temujin. He was also born with a blood clot in his hand, which was an ancient sign of an acceptable leader. Many wonder just how barbaric were the ‘barbarians’? Although there is evidence to suggest that the Mongols had some non-barbaric traits, there is more evidence suggesting that the…

father was the leader. Later, Temujin’s father was poisoned by an enemy, killing him within a few days. When Temuchin became older, he was named the leader of the Mongol tribe. They then became a very powerful group, because of their leader, Genghis Khan, or Temuchin. Him and his tribe travelled by horse across Asia, and conquered much of the land, killing many other neighboring tribes. Since then, people have wonder if the Mongols were barbaric, not barbaric, or in between. I believe the…

vast empire. They were led by Temujin Khan, later renamed Genghis Khan, meaning “universal ruler” who amassed his following by uniting Mongolia’s plethora of clans and utilizing his military might to unprecedentedly sweep across Eurasia. When Genghis Khan died in 1227, the Mongol Empire split into four distinct khanates (regions) to redistribute power among his sons (Chagatai Khanate in Central…

Political Organization The Southern Valley Yokuts were a large group, and they would split themselves into smaller self-governing groups of about 350 people, adopting names, and creating dialects of the language. While these groups formed a single village that usually had several settlements, created from close families, with one settlement being the dominant (). During the late spring, or early summer, the groups would separate. The separation allowed families to leave for months and gather…

When he was there the Kublai Khan though Marco useful and employed him. While there he was a special, the tax inspector of Yanzhou, the official of the Privy Council, and at one point he was the governor of a city. After 17 years of living in the Kublai Court they returned home to…

described the relationship as “Men who are sworn brothers share one life. They do not abandon each other but protect that life”(Emerson). As stated by Jack Weatherford, a Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota, and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World: the bond between two blood brothers was stronger than any familial bond, as the anda was freely chosen by the males (Weatherford “Making” 22). When each male in the relationship was still working to find…

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford is a history of the Mongol expansion from Genghis Khan to the 19th century through the telling of a cultural anthropologist, not a historian. He studied The Secret History of the Mongols as gradually came to light over the course of the mid to late-20th century as transcribed by many outside Mongolia, most notably Igor de Rachewiltz an Australian scholar. Transcription inside communist China was considerably more difficult…