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Mongol Influence On Eurasia

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The empire began in Eurasia in 13C.E has forever changed the world map, the leader of the Mongol empire has started intercontinental trade, altered the course of leadership between two religions and prompt new nations. At its peak, the Mongol was the biggest contiguous empire in history, extending from the Carpathian Mountains to the Sea of Japan. (May, 2011) It is no doubt that during Mongol’s governs had a massive impact to the Eurasia during that period of time, but in fact the impacts that they brought to the rest of the world was also enormous. The creation of the Mongol Empire was a difficult and slow process, the leader Genghis Khan(1167-227) was born in Temujin, he was a genius with supernatural talents in ruling his army and fighting …show more content…

Under his rules, the speeds of expansion have reached to its top. Mongol forces expand into Persia, swiped off the Xia and the remnants of the Khwarezmid, and arose conflicts with the Song Dynasty, starting a war that last until 1279, and have successfully defeat populous of China. Later, around 1230s, Batu Khan lead Mongol attacked Volga Bulgaria and Russia, decreasing lots of its domains to vassalage, and pushed on into Eastern Europe. But due to the death of Ogedei, Batu then turned his target into the next election of great Khan, therefore this was indeed a turning point to Europe as they were almost fallen into Mongol's invasion. (Mongol empire, 2015) Later on Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan has future pushed the Mongol empire to at height, he was the first ruler of the Yuan dynasty, he has been trained at his young age to become a good fighter, and was exposed to the Chinese culture. (Watt, 2010) The Mongol empire unlike the other empires, the Mongol has only named its Yuan dynasty until 1271, this is due to Kublai Khan's young exposed to the Chinese culture, he decided to continues to follow most of the Song dynasty's rules and kept most of the official (Endicott-West, 1989), his hope was to minimize as much the conflicts that they arose with the previous Song dynasty as he possibly can and close up the gap between the race difference.(Rossabi,

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