Marco Polo

One of those routes was the silk route which permitted trade of new goods from Asia to Europe, cultural exchanges and knowledge. A figure that emerged from the trade and exploration of the silk route is Marco Polo. The unification of Russia came as a positive aspect under the period of Mongol control. Before the Mongols, the Russian population was separated and organized into small self governing regions, but in order for the Russian people to defeat the…

Kublai Khan was an adventurous ruler in his time ruling over the Mongol Empire and eventually his portion after its split. He sought for power for a massive empire spanning most of Asia, and he was never satisfied with it. Kahn’s consistent push for more land or vassal’s to add to his empire led to his overstretch of both his military but also the resources of his empire. He build massive invasion forces that largely failed leading to some hard to answer questions about his empire and what truly…

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shape the World The total amount of export and imports takes place across national borders in the world is amazing. According to International Monetary Fund, above $20 trillions of total goods and services will be exchanged each year in times to come. In 2008, United States alone have imported and exported over $4.5 trillion of goods and services. The US have traded virtually to every country in the world. It is true that Americans have imported chocolate from…

Planetary Perspectives (Pg. 1) The section points out that although the Earth has been a part of the universe for billions of years, the New World was only discovered 500 years ago. That is virtually nothing compared to the Earth. The American Republic has only been here for 239 years out of 4.6 billion. Key Terms American Republic - the United States Indirect Discoverers of The New World (Pg. 2) Although the Scandinavians landed in North America, it wasn 't until the Europeans landed there…

Madeleine Bell Per. 3 3.1 Unlike the Classical Era, trade networks in the post-Classical Era expanded in geographical range. They expanded due to the growth of trade in luxury goods such as silk and cotton textiles, the innovations in transportation and commercial technologies such as caravan organization, the use of a compass, larger ship designs,new forms of credit, and commercial infrastructures like the Grand Canal in China. 3.1.0.1 New technologies that accompanied these…

Function of Duetting in Birds Antiphonal signaling, or duetting behavior, exists across many species of birds and other animals (Dowling 2015). Duets are a form of acoustic signaling in which a pair of individuals participates in making the signal rather than the more common acoustic signal where only one animal participates in being the sender. The costs associated with producing a duet are likely higher than the costs associated with individual acoustical signals. This is because duets likely…

History has encountered a great deal of influential leaders such as Julius Caesar , Hannibal and Alexander the Great. Surprisingly enough one of the world’s greatest warriors is always left out of the equation , Genghis Khan of the Mongolian Tribe. Today in our society , they are portrayed as savages who had the sole purpose of wiping out entire cultures , destroying villages and murdering the most people possible. While part of this statement was true , let’s not forget that the old world was…

The Mongol Empire was the world's largest contiguous empire in history, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. Although emerging from the Mongolian steppes as uncivilized nomads lacking a basic government structure in 1206; the Mongols quickly adapted and developed an elaborate political structure to rule their vast empire. They were led by Temujin Khan, later renamed Genghis Khan, meaning “universal ruler” who amassed his following by uniting…

Article Analysis - “Should We Kill Animals to Save Them?” by Satvik Gurram Though the fees for hunting animals may presumably go to conservation and help maintain conservancies and wildlife reserves, many critics believe that endangered and big game animals shouldn’t be killed and the benefits of hunting fees are not significant at all. Nyae Nyae, a wildlife reserve in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert, protects one of the last large elephants in the world. In addition to these elephants, around 3,000…

Mongol Empire was the greatest empire ever. Its region reached out from the Yellow Sea in eastern Asia to the outskirts of eastern Europe. At different times it included China, Korea, Mongolia, Persia (now Iran), Turkestan, and Armenia. It additionally included parts of Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, and Russia. The Mongols, who inevitably got to be known as the Tatars, were the most barbaric victors of history. Be that as it may, this incredible realm helped build contacts between people groups…