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What was the largest empire in the history of mankind?

What was the largest empire in the history of mankind?. Nope…not the Romans Close..but not Alexander’s Greek Hellenistic Empire Persians….nah Not the Mughals…or the Ottomons… No, Not the Aztecs…. Mongols.

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What was the largest empire in the history of mankind?

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  1. What was the largest empire in the history of mankind? Nope…not the Romans Close..but not Alexander’s Greek Hellenistic Empire Persians….nah Not the Mughals…or the Ottomons… No, Not the Aztecs…

  2. Mongols

  3. By total area: British Empire (1922), 33.7 million square km spread all over the world • By contiguous (unbroken) area: Mongol Empire (ca 1300), 33.0 million sq. km • By% of world population: Persian Empire (ca. 480 BC), 44% • By % of world GDP: USA (1945) 33%

  4. Matching • 1. Ghengiz Khan A. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in • 2. Kublai Khan B. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing • 3. Zhu Yuanzhang C. United the various Mongol Tribes • 4. Ming Dynasty D. Age of Mongol rule in China • 5. Yuan Dynasty E. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall

  5. Matching • 1. Ghengiz Khan A. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in • 2. Kublai Khan B. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing • 3. Zhu Yuanzhang C. United the various Mongol Tribes • 4. Ming Dynasty D. Age of Mongol rule in China • 5. Yuan Dynasty E. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall

  6. Nomadic herders & warriors

  7. Skilled horsemen • Expert warriors on horseback

  8. Rival Mongol clans fought each other____________________

  9. Genghiz Khan • The chieftain that united all the Mongol clans

  10. The Golden Horde Forced conquered people to pay TRIBUTE! ?

  11. Walled cities • Mongols had a problem getting inside the walled cities of China • Incorporated canons in his arsenal

  12. Territories • Mongols took northern China, Russia, and Muslim lands

  13. Pax Mongolia • What does PAX mean? • Protected the road across Eurasia • Cultural diffusion

  14. Kublai Khan • Genghiz Khan’s grandson • Took over the Song dynasty

  15. You with us? • What are the 6 Chinese dynasties you learned this year? • Did you read? Describe the dynasty created by Kublai Khan- • What is the next Dynasty that claims the “mandate of heaven” after Kublai Khan dies? • Who is one famous person that comes out of the Ming dynasty?

  16. Yuan Dynasty • Mongol dynasty • Only allowed Mongols in the military and government

  17. Marco Polo • Visits China during Kublai Khan’s rule

  18. Ming Dynasty MING= BRILLIANT • The Yuan Dynasty is overthrown by the Ming dynasty • Chinese dynasty • Restored the civil service test, and Confucian Ideals ZHU YUANZHANG

  19. Zheng He • 1405 • 62 large ships & hundreds of smaller ships • 25,000 sailors • Prime directive: to promote trade and collect tribute

  20. South East Asia • S.E. Asia • India • Red Sea • Persian Gulf

  21. Zheng He dies • 1433 • Ming outlaws sea-ship building • Why? Ethnocentric? COST??

  22. Why? • High cost & little return • Ethnocentrism WEAKENS CHINA !!!

  23. 60 years later….. • Christopher Columbus sails from Spain WHAT IF???

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