By: Daniel Levin, Edward Nirenberg, and Russell Huang.
Transcript of By: Daniel Levin, Edward Nirenberg, and Russell Huang.
An Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction: The Mongols,
Arabs, and The Turks
By: Daniel Levin, Edward Nirenberg, and Russell Huang
The Road to Revision
The Mongols
• Mongols were conquerors
scattered throughout the Central
Asian steppe.
• They were very war-bound and at
one point assembled the largest
empire in history.
• They lived in tribes, in tents called
yurts.
• The Mongol tribes were united by
Genghis Khan.
• They were split up into 4 khanates
after the death of Genghis Khan.
The Arabs
• The Arabs were unlike their
Mongol neighbors. Rather than
being war-bound they had a
predisposition to the
commercial side of interaction.
• During this time, it would be
odd to see a merchant that was
not Muslim.
• They spread their religion to
almost everyone that they
visited.
• Practiced Islam.
The Turks
• The Turks were a varied group
of tribes, and each had
significant roles in history.
• Some important groups include:
the Saljuqs, the Ottomans, and
the Uighurs.
• Many of the tribes were Muslim.
• Uighurs could be found in East
Asia, near China, Saljuqs in the
Middle East, and the Ottomans
in Anatolia.
The Silk Road
• The Silk Road was used by all of the aforementioned civilizations.
• It wasn’t an actual road, per say, but rather a network of trade
routes.
• It is called the Silk road because of all the Silk leaving China being
redistributed throughout the regions who relied upon it.
• Although China once monopolized the silk industry, the
Byzantines, by way of monks who had come to China, soon also
gained access to the silk.
• Though the primary function of the road was commerce, it was
often used for battle by, specifically, the Seljuq Turks and the
Mongols.
INVASIONS
By nature, these 3 groups, the Mongols in particular, got into many
altercations.
The Mongolian Territory
The Mongols amassed a territory so great that it was one of the largest in all of history, second to the British Empire, even more gargantuan than that of Alexander
the Great’s.
Battle of Manzikert
The Saljuq Turks attacked and conquered Anatolia in the Battle of Manzikert in
the year 1071. They kidnapped the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes.
The Conquering of Constantinople
The Ottoman Turks sacked Constantinople in 1453 and took over the Byzantine empire.
QUIZ!1) What year was the sacking of Constantinople?
a)1354b)1450c)1453d)1353e)2005
2) Who participated in the Battle of Manzikert? Who was taken? a) The Mongols took Justinian from the Byzantines because they
wanted to.b)The Ottoman Turks took Theodora from the Western Europeans
because she was causing political unrest.c)The Uighurs attacked China and took several monks.d)The Saljuq Turks attacked Anatolia and took emperor Romanos IV
Diogenes.e)The Chinese attacked because they tainted the land with
Buddhism.
Quiz3) When was the Battle of Manzikert?
a)1053b)1052c)1501d)1450e)1010
4) Which Empire amassed the largest territory in 1279? (Hint: their expansion stopped at Egypt)
a)The Uighursb)The Mongolsc)The Arabsd)The Ottomanse)The British
Quiz5) What abstract thing did the Arabs distribute to almost everywhere that they visited?
a) territoryb) mathc) turbansd) religione) philosophy
6) Why is the Silk Road named so?a) It’s smooth.b) It was the Chinese’s way of reflecting their ethnocentric
nationalism of their monopoly of the silk industry.c)The Arabs liked silk.d) There is no reason for the name.e) Silk was among the main exports.
Quiz7) Name all of the Mongolian Khanates, state the location of each, and at least o thing that they did for the people.