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Title: THE MONGOLS


1
THE MONGOLS
  • Means for fast conquests
  • Military Tactics
  • Extraordinary abilities on horseback and special
    properties of their bows
  • Mongol bows could shoot 1/3 further
  • Composite structure of bow, jade thumb ring allow
    archers hand to withstand tremendous tension of
    bowstring

2
THE MONGOLS
  • Means for fast conquests
  • Military Tactics (cont.)
  • Would destroy enemies marksmen from safe
    distance
  • Ride horses into combat against enemy infantry

3
THE MONGOLS
  • Means for fast conquests
  • Adaptability
  • Policy of inclusiveness
  • Genghis Khans advisors were adherents of all
    religions and linguistic groups
  • Indicative in the Mongols technique for seizing
    forts/cities
  • Volley of flaming arrows
  • Hurling of projectiles
  • City residents had choice to surrender and
    assimilate or die!

4
THE MONGOLS
  • Means for fast conquests
  • Adaptability
  • Mongol armies grow after each successive conquest
  • Small elite groups oversee armies of recruits
  • Turkic
  • Iranian
  • Arabian
  • Played rivalries against each other (Christians
    vs. Muslims)

5
THE MONGOLS
  • Spread of Plague
  • The Mongol conquests opened overland trade routes
    and brought about an unprecedented commercial
    integration of Eurasia
  • Long-distance trade under Mongols led to transfer
    of military and scientific knowledge

6
THE MONGOLS
  • Spread of Plague
  • Diseases including bubonic plague also spread
    over the trade routes of the Mongol empire
  • Plague had lingered in Yunnan, transferred to
    central and north China, to Central Asia, to
    Kaffa, and from there to the Mediterranean world
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