Transitions: The Mongol Period
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What unexpected development after 1200 extended the framework in ways that would lead to the next major globalization phase?
Who was Chinggis Khan?
What territory were the Mongols able to conquer? In what time period?
- Chinggis Khan launched his attacks on China in 1215.
- All of northern China was seized just a few years after Chinggis Khan's death in 1227.
- In the meantime, other Mongol conquerors fanned out in Russia, which was taken over between 1236 and 1240;
- another group pressed further into Central Asia, capturing key cities along the old Silk Road; and yet another wave invaded the eastern Middle East, winning Baghdad in 1258 and definitively ending the Arab caliphate.
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Which countries were able to block the Mongols?
- While Mongols raided Poland and Hungary to the west of Russia, they did not stay to consolidate their gains.
- And an Egyptian force successfully blocked them from moving into the western Middle East and North Africa.
What characterizes Mongol rulers?
- In addition, the Mongol rulers effectively secured orderly trade routes throughout their domains.
How did Chinggis Khan go about scholars?
What made the Mongol era a crucial accelerator for a variety of interregional contacts?
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