mongol empires after chinggis khan Flashcards
his dead leads to
struggle fro power between sons and grandsons
- -they divided his empire into 4 realms
- china
- central asia
- persia
- russia
who ruled china
the great khans
who ruled chaghatai- central asia
descendants of chaghatai
who rulesd persia
ilkhans
who dominated russia
khans of the golden horde
who consolidated mongol rule in CHINA
kublai khan
- great ruler
- made ruthless attacks on enemies but took interest in cultural matters
kublai khan religion
buddhism
- supported daoists, muslims, christians
- marco polo said that he gave to the poor and built roads
kubilai khan’s base
khanbaliq
kubilai khan conquest in china
he attacked the song dynasty in S china
- -took the song capital (hangzhou) in 1276
- and the established the yuan dynasty until 1368 when it collapsed
kubilai khan conquest out of china
little success
- tried to get vietnam, cambodia, and burma, and java
- couldnt adapt the the humid tropical jungles of SE asia
- pasturelands unsuitable for horses
- typhoons thwarted the sea routes
kamikaze
divine winds
-japanese thought that that was what kept the mongols away
golden horde conquest
conquered poland, hungary, and eastern germany
- used the steppes in russia for pasturelands
- they did not occupy russia because of the forests
who established the mongol ilkhanate in persia
khubilai’s brother, Hülegu, toppled the abbasid empire and established the mongol ilkhanate
what happened to the golden horde conquests
they fell out of their control
-because they had no experience in administration
mongols in persia tactics
important concession to local interest
-allowed persians in the government
-assimilated to persian cultural traditions
Ilkhan Ghazan converted to islam
