History 1601E Lecture Notes - Clavichord, Censorate, Wei Zhongxian

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1601E
• Professor: Cary Takagaki

Document Summary

Yuan china and the mongol empire; korea: the chos n dynasty. By the thirteenth century, china and korea had accrued many centuries of experience with northern nomadic pastoralists who from time to time formed wide-ranging confederations that threatened and occasionally invaded their territory. Late 12th century drop in mean annual temperature. Genghis khan unifies the mongol tribes of the northern steppe in 1206 conquers the jurchen northern capital at beijing in 1215. Although their populations was tiny compared to that of the large agricultural societies they conquered, their tactics, weapons, and organization all gave them advantages. Fielding a powerful cavalry (chinese did not grow up from the horse back) 1279: the southern song falls and the mongols become the first nomadic conquerors to rule all of china. 1271: khubilai khan takes the title emperor of china and establishes the yuan dynasty ( original. Mongols semuren (mongol allies from central asia & the near east; e. g. , tibetans, uighurs, persians,