Kublai Khan

Are the Barbarians barbaric? It’s been discussed among historians, whether or not the Mongols were barbaric, considering the name they’ve been given. Despite all of the damage the Mongols have done, it’s for some reason still a question. Are the ‘Barbarians’ barbaric? On a persian manuscript, it shows the Mongols executing prisoners by burying them alive. If that’s not bad enough, they bury them head first. But with their bodies still above ground. Also, at North China in 1211, an army of…

Temujin became Chinggis Khan became khagan (supreme leader) of Mongol tribes  united: plan attack on world • Chinggis Khan’s men trained young to hunt & fight  physical power, mobile, used to killing/death; had lances, hatchets, iron maces, etc.; short bows = strongest w/ accuracy & hit as far as 400 yds • 2/3 horses as remounts; could do over wk on horse; could do 80/90 mi/day; strike before enemy defense & go back to steppes only to reappear quickly • Chinggis Khan gave org., discipline, &…

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…

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…

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…

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…

1206, Temuchin won the leadership and was given the name Genghis Khan. The Mongols slaughtered so much that streets were full of human fats and flesh. In ancient Persia empire of Khwarazm, Genghis Khan and the Shah of Khwarazm settled a trade agreement, but then 150 traders from Mongolia was murdered by one of Shah’s governors. The Mongols came back with a great vengeance of manslaughter, resulting in the Persian cities falling. Khan died in 1227 and his son, Ogedei took over and his first…

actions of the Mongols affected many societies both positively and negatively. Mongol invasions may have disrupted civilizations, but they also helped improve the world network as a whole. A powerful ruler, or khan, and probably the most important Mongol khan, was Chinggis Khan. Chinggis Khan was born in the 1770s as Temujin in a splinter clan. His father was an able leader, and he promised a marriage between his oldest son, Temujin, and a stronger chief’s daughter. When the family’s money began…