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Genghis Khan (Temujin)
1162-1227 |
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-Oceanic Ruler
-Universal Lord
-Conquests of his successors resulted in most of Eurasia being incorporated int the largest land empire in history. |
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Rise of the Mongols
Mongolia/China |
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| site of empire's nominal central administration under the Great Khan |
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Rise of the Mongols
Russia |
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Peace and order throughout the empire which facilitated widespread commercial and cultural interaction
-Great tolerance of Christians and offshute religions |
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-Established under Kublai Khan
-Government official were almost exclusively Mongol or non-Chinese
-Expenditures resulted in increasing taxation and forced labor
-Increased contact with the West (European traders and missionaries) |
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| Decline and collapse of the Yuan dynasty |
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Aristocracy and military declined subsequent to Kublai Khan's reign
-sporadic anti-Mongol rebellions evolved into general racial revolution with the Red Turban movement which played a major rule in dethronement |
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| -Mongol conquest in Western Asia brought an en to the Abbasid Dynasty in 1258 |
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-known as Il-khans (secondary khans)
-controlled the territory from Asia Minor to Persia
-embraced Islam |
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| The Ilkhanate decline and collapse |
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-Loss of territory to the khans of the Golden Horde (Mongol rulers of Southern Russia)
-contending factions among the Mongol nobility, disintegration into rival provincial regimes. |
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