Mongol Empire

friars returned home after realizing how dangerous the journey would be. Marco Polo was the Great Khan’s emissary who authorized his travel throughout his empire. The purpose of his journey was to investigate and report back his findings about the people he encountered, their customs, culture, and climate. They were also bringing letters for the Mongol emperor from Pope Gregory X. There were many conditions and situations that prompted the writing of this travel adventure. The instigating…

history, China had their glory but also had a hard time, and the changed of China also changed impression on westerners by their literary or visual representations. In the 13th - 14th century, Genghis Khan established the Mongolia regime, built the Empire of Mongolia and began his territorial expansion. At that time European were having a bad time of their Crusade, they lose the Jerusalem to the Muslims, Emperor Frederick II refused to take part of in the fifth Crusade and had conflicts with…

by Alexander the Great; this all come about around 323-522 BCE. Throughout 699-700 Islam became a part of Afghanistan, due to an Arab invasion in Kandahar. Within the 13th century, Genghis Khan (the founder of the Mongol empire) invaded Afghanistan; this led to Indian and Persian empires fighting over Afghanistan for hundreds of years. Ultimately, in the 18th century Afghanistan was finally overruled by Pashtun tribes; which was led by Ahmad Shah Abdali. This was the defeat of the Moghuls and…

He traveled with his father and his uncle to the Mongol Empire in China.It took four years for Marco, his father and his uncle to reach China.3 In China Khan happily received the Polos. And he got impressed on Marco Polo, his knowledge of the Chinese culture he's quickly learning of language and taking note…

The Mongol Empire By Stefan From 1206 to 1366 the Mongols took over so much land they had the largest contiguous land empire in history. The Mongols were so big and important they impacted not only everyone in Europe and Asia, but they impacted the entire world history. It is believed that they impacted the world in a positive way. For example, the Mongols influenced the creation of new inventions by bringing new ideas and materials into different lands, combining cultures and raw materials. In…

today. In Eurasia, which is modern day Europe and Asia, there were many strong groups of nomadic people who moved frequently. Two of these groups were the Mongols and the Seljuk nomads. Although there are many reasons, these nomadic groups moved more often because of environmental, social, and political problems in their lands. To begin, the Mongols were a strong nomadic powerhouse located originally in the East steppes of Central Asia through the 13th and 14th century. They spent their time…

conquests of the Mongols have never been matched. Under Genghis Khan’s leadership, the “horsemen of the steppe” conquered China and the Muslim parts of central Asia and pushed deep into Europe and the Middle East in just about 25 years. Although their attempts to take Japan and Southeast Asia failed, only once did they suffer a notably decisive defeat, a defeat which came at the hands of Mameluke general Baibars at Ain Jalut, Palestine around the year 1260. The Romans had an Empire stretching…

The Mongols were a group of nomadic tribes occupying the Eurasian Steppe. Genghis Khan united these tribes in the 13th century and quickly established a large empire. This empire became the largest land empire in history. Although the Mongolian Invasions of the 13th Century CE increased trade and aided in the cross-cultural pollination of ideas and cuisine, these achievements came at the expense of upwards of fifty million lives during the span of their brutal conquests. The Mongolian…

Members of the jury, we have been called today by Lady Justice to try the war crimes of Genghis Khan, leader of the Mongol Empire. Genghis Khan and his descendants were uncivilized conquerors and rulers in the 13th and 14th centuries and are being tried for crimes against humanity. Genghis Khan began his conquests in the late 1100s—the prosecution cannot pinpoint the exact year as his campaigns and skirmishes are too numerous to count—and continued on his campaign of terror until his death.…

Ariq Boke normally can be viewed as a questionable figure in Mongol history. Often times he is portrayed negatively through the primary sources of his era, especially those of Rashid Al-Din. However, despite his controversial background, Ariq Boke was an important figure in the Mongol empire because he represented the opposing internal conflicts of the Mongol imperium, as well as demonstrated the turbulence of the time. Generally, the inevitable war between Ariq Boke and his older brother…