Genghis Khan: The Culture of a Nomadic Empire I read The Conquest of Genghis Khan, written by Alison Behnke, which was about how Genghis Khan grew to power, and changed the world forever. Genghis Khan’s culture is obviously vastly different from mine. Genghis Khan was the founder and undisputed leader of the Mongol Empire. The Mongol Empire ruled with an iron fist in Asia through the 13th and 14th centuries. The Mongols were the largest contiguous land empire in history. Most people think that
World’s Largest Empire Edmund Burke III also describes how Genghis Khan “created an empire that stretched from Korea to eastern Europe… [which] controlled a territory of close to 7 million square miles, making it the largest empire in world history” (73). State Approx. Year Approx. size in square miles Roman empire 100 C.E. 1,698,400 Arab Muslim empire 750 C.E. 4,246,000 Sung empire (China) 1000 C.E. 1,158,000 Mongol empire 1250 C.E. 6,948,000 Inca empire (Andes Mts.) 1500 C.E. 772,000 Continental
Life of Mongol Women: Women in the Mongol Empires were physically strong with the mindset of always being ready to fight in the battle and their ability to handle horses and shoot arrows just like men. (John of Plano Carpini. “The Journey of Friar John of Pian De Carpine.” The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, translated by William Woodville Rockhill, London: Hakluyt Society, 1900, pp. 1–32. ) The ideal quality of true Mongol women was described as Khutulun who had
the decline of the Mongolian and the rise of the Ottoman Empire were also the reasons why the old trade routes couldn’t continue any more. The fall of the Yuan Dynasty and the decline of the four Khanate marked the Mongolian lost the control of central Asia, which meant that the Silk Road was not safe or convenient any more. The old Silk Road inevitably declined again. The recession of Western Europe because of the Black Death and the decline of Timurid Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire got stronger and