Mongols





MI: Mongol leader Kubilai Khan took an interest in the Chinese and would either discourage or incorporate Chinese styles into mongol society during the Yuan era. MI: Mongol women would still be against the idea of adapting to Chinese ideas. MI: Mongols leaders had this continuous curiosity for scholars and advisers that united all civilizations with their ideas. //strong interest for religions// Social Policies and Scholar-Gentry Resistance MI: Mongol conquest in the Chinese area, cause the merchant and artisan class to increase while the scholar-gentry class to decrease. The Fall of the house of Yuan MI: With the death of Kubilai's close ones, it cause empire to slowly crumble. Aftershock: The Brief Ride of Timur MI: Timur-i Lang was a turkish nomadic leader who expanded land in mid - EuroAsia except his expansion did not benefit he conquered.
 * The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History **
 * Kubilai Khan was grandsons of Chinggis Khan who lead sieges into Chinese cities and became great khan in 1260
 * laws created by Kubilai Khan was either to separate the Chinese from the Mongols - discouraged friendship, marriage, leanings
 * Tatu, capital city; Kubilai surrounded himself with Chinese scholars and advisers => social class where mongols were at top and below them was the Chinese bureaucracy
 * Gender roles and the Convergence of Mongol and Chinese culture **
 * refused to ideas such as foot binding, and limited freedom
 * Mongol women still had to freedom in the house hold and to hunt; ex. Kubilai cousin refused to marry a man chosen for her
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chabi - wife of Kubilai Khan was a powerful political figure that promoted Buddhist, went against harsh treatment to the Chinese, respect for Chinese culture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mongol Tolerance for Foreign Cultural Influence **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Muslims designed better tax system, doctors ran imperial hospitals, Persian astronomers on outer space.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Travelers were open to the of the Mongols => Marco Polo who traveled east during the 13th century where he stayed for 17 years
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Marco Polo's travels and his experiences that was spread back into Europe influence people such as Columbus in finding new land; //spark of curiosity//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chinese scholar gentry saw Mongol rulings wrong and it was shown that Mongols continue to alienate the Scholar Gentry class
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">during invasions in the Chinese land, artisans and merchants were usually the one spared
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">intellectual life was increasing with //The Romance of West Camber// a play written during the Yuan period
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">laws created to the lower class was meant to benefit the people; went against upper class of the Chinese
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">loyalists were revoltings, hostility became popular, expansions became a failure
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">no actually successor for the country, where foreign trustee was only used by coruption
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**White Lotus society** - a secret society where its purpose was to overthrow the dynasty; leaders claim to have secret powers
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">man for the poor came up to rule the next dynasty; **Ming Dynasty**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">leader had intellectual values were he enjoyed fine arts and architecture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">also he was stated to be a ruthless leader who can kill in large amounts
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">in his campaigns he main pyramids with skulls of head from people he kill and slaughter the people in Delhi except his did spared the artisans