Ch. 11 Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage

Chapter 11 Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage

The Mongols also referred to as nomads had a certain disregard for farm work even though their economy relied heavily on livestock and animals. While they are responsible for the creation of the Afro-Eurasian Empire; they were not responsible for the building of major metropolitan urban centers or city states.

These Pastoral societies were inhabited by many relatives that you would find spread out from each other. These Pastoral societies formed themselves into clans based on their strengths which is how they also were able to cultivate a strong and powerful army. The most powerful clan, Chinggis Khan banned together to create a more unified empire.

Innovation was an advantage well within the Mongols’ skill set. They were responsible for armor, swords, saddles, harnesses for horses and stirrups. These are all items that they’d use most commonly for their army. The mongols were not only innovative but they were also unified; two things that allowed them to have such a successful army.

The Mongols dominated a lot of new territory while adopting new languages and religions along the way. It is said that the Mongols occupied more than 10,000 stations in numerous regions and kept hundreds of thousands of horses.

One of the Mongols’ biggest invasions, the invasion of Northern China. This invasion went on from 1209 all the way until the year 1279. The main goal of the invasion was for the Mongols to learn from China and Persia’s advanced societies and to take some of their wealth in the process. In China, the Mongols made sure to follow their methods to taxation and in Persia; they mirrored their bureaucracy. The Mongols used their own skill to their advantage which allowed them to successfully invade other territories and learn and build from what they saw.