HISTORY 1CC3 Lecture 6: The Largest Empire (Eurasian Encounters)
15 Feb 2017
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**course-related lms**: the thirteenth warrior: arab meets viking, mongol, alexander nevsky, andrei rublev. Ultimate and proximate causes: re ections on climate change, puts turkic nomads and. Egypt and near east: turkic peoples moving into iran and iraq, closer to baghdad, seljik turks, seljik empire. Central asia empire (short-lived: 1077-1220) of khwarezmid: khan went on a massacre in this part of the world. Sacking of baghdad, february 1258: people either joined khan or were killed, once killed every last creature in a village including animals, possibility that this was false & propaganda, mongol horse mounted archers: 10-20 horses per man. Mongol empire: largest land-based empire in history. The mongol empire and legacies: names and terms: bokhara, kiva, samarkand, khitai empire, babur and mughal empire (mongol empire successors, pax mongolica, yuan dynasty, hulegu (also known as hulagu, baybars (commander at ain jalut, golden horde in russia.
