Mongols: The Cunning Barbarians

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Mongols The Cunning Barbarians ?
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China and the Mongols 1234
Yuan Dynasty Painting
Ghengis Khan 1162-1227
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Yuan Dynasty 1234-1368
Kubilai Khan rules 1260-94
Yuan Dynasty Painting
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Marco Polo in China
Marco Polo arrives in Beijing
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Goods Marco Polo Saw
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Ibn Battuta 1304-1369

• Travels 30 years
• Dar al-Islam
• 75,000 miles
• China, Sri Lanka, Byzantium

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Black Death Ends the WS?
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Saint Roch-A Saint for the Ill
A plague saint
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Mongols in 20th/21st C.
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Ming Dynasty Zheng He
7 trips 1403-1433
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang
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Mongolian Felt House, a yurt
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Mongolian Horses and Riders on the Steppe