The Mongol Invasion

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The Mongol Invasion The Black Death
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Rise of the Mongols

• Nomadic
• Cavalry
• Temujin
• Meeting of the Khuraltai
• Grand Council of Elders
• Karakorum
• 1206
• Great King - Genghis (Chingiz) Khan
• Unification
• Reorganized army

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The Mongol Conquests

• 1209 - Raids in China
• Persia
• Bokhara
• Samarkand
• 1222 - Raids in Russia
• Tartars
• 1227 -
• Back to China
• Death of Genghis Kahn
• Ogedei
• 1234 - Fall of Jin Dynasty

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The Mongol Conquests

• 1237 1240
• Invasion of Russia
• Teutonic Knights
• Vienna
• 1241 Death of Ogedei
• Retreat
• Near East
• Hulegu
• 1258 - capture of Baghdad
• End of Abbasid Caliphate

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The Mongol Empire

• East to West Trade
• Silk Road
• Spinning Wheel
• Compass
• Gunpowder
• Disease
• Black Death
• Marco Polo
• Empire Divided
• Khanate of the Golden Horde
• Il-khanate
• Chagatai
• Yuan Dynasty

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The Yuan Dynasty in China

• Kublai Kahn
• Completed conquest of China
• 1279
• Gunpowder
• fire lance
• Adopt Chinese ways
• Government Hierarchy
• Foreign Administrators

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Mongol Invasion of Japan

• The Kamakura Period
• 1185-1333
• Japanese Feudalism
• shoen
• bakufu
• First Mongol invasion
• 1274
• Kublai Khan
• Stalemate
• Storm

• Second Mongol Invasion
• 1281
• Walls
• Kamikaze
• Kamakura/Minamoto collapse
• Ashikaga Shogunate

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Little Ice Age The Black Death

• Little Ice Age
• 1300-1450
• Climate change
• Lowered Food production, productivity
• Great Famine (1315-1322)
• Disease
• Typhoid Fever
• Black Death

• The Black Death
• Most massive epidemic on record
• Bubonic Plague
• bacillus Yersinia pestis
• Afflicts rats, carried by fleas
• Symptoms
• 1331 China
• Mongol Empire
• Black sea - 1340
• Kaffa
• Genoan Traders
• Oct. 1347 - Messina, Sicily

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Fighting the Black Death

• Urban Conditions
• Mortality rates
• Medicine
• poisons or corrupted air
• Incense
• Sounds
• Cryptograms
• Flight to countryside
• Act of God?
• Clergy

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Consequences of The Black Death

• Economic Impact
• Inflation
• Higher standard of living
• Greater Social Mobility
• Physiological consequences
• Asceticism
• Flagellants
• Universities
• Endowments