HS 122- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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History notes: focus on the core concepts not so much the dates. Interrupted by small mountains and patches of forest. population. Expanse of mostly flat plains, stretching from manchuria to pannonian plain. Diet based largely on meat and dairy from herds, supplemented by trade across. Enclosed nomadism-migrations within the boundaries of agricultural societies- Steppe nomadism: summer and winter pastures. borders with sedentary populations. *** example of this is on blackboard, image wise**** Mongol tribalism, society, and religion: imagined family relationships. Established after breaking away fro(cid:373) father(cid:859)s yurt i(cid:374) free-ranging period (qazaq). The tribe as primary social and political unit of mongols. Frontier nomadism- ranging beyond frontiers of settled states, either trading. Swearing oaths to serve a clan leader as n ker. Clans could consolidate into large confederations called an ulus basis of steppe empires, including the mongols. Skills on horesback and mobility, open terrain suited to calvary. Men and women trained to shoot and fight.
