HIST 24000 Midterm: Test Review #2 Essays

• School: Purdue University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 24000
• Professor: Sally A Hastings

Document Summary

You should not have with you during the examination any paper other than that provided by the instructors for the course. At first the mongols ruled with little values on chinese culture, as they burned cities and massacred people. Under the attack, rural population suffered greatly because the mongols doesn"t believe in agriculture, so they turned farm land into pastures. The mongols also divided population into 4 different levels when they ruled. The first two being mongols and non-chinese allies. The last two were north and south chinese, including kitans, jurchans in this categories. Also there are discriminations in laws, making chinese not in control of the government in any means. But other than negative effects, there are also positive ones during this time period. Under khubilai khan, yunan was added to china as new territory. Trade flourished because of the postal system mongols set up, they rebuild the grand cancel and began the cotton industry.