The Earth and Its Peoples AP 5th Edition - Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200–1500 - Chapter 12
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
Mongol empire [2]
Asia [3]
Borjigin [4]
Eurasian nomads [5]
Mongol conquests [6]
Yuan Dynasty [7]
mongols [8]
Kublai Khan [9]
Genghis Khan [10]
Golden Horde [11]
Ilkhanate [12]
Ghazan [13]
The Mongols [14]
I. The Rise of the Mongols, 1200?1260 A. Nomadism in Central and Inner Asia 1. Nomadic groups depended on scarce water and pasture resources; in times of scarcity, conflicts occurred, resulting in the extermination of smaller groups and in the formation of alliances and out-migration. Around the year 1000, the lands inhabited by the Mongols experienced unusually dry weather, with its attendant effects on the availability of resources and pressures on the nomadic Mongol tribes.