HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Abbasid Caliphate, Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan
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Grouped his warriors into armies of 10k, which in turn were organized into brigades of 1k. Brigades were broken down into companies of 100, and companies were broken down to 10-man platoons. This meant that the army could carry out orders swiftly. Never recklessly went into battle against an unknown enemy. Employed spies brilliantly to find out enemy weaknesses. If a city refused to open its gates to him, he might kill the entire population when he finally captured the place. The terror that the mongols spread led many towns to surrender w/o a fight: the mongol empire divided. Gk died in 1227, but the mongol conquest continued sons and grandsons of gk were responsible for the massacre of untold millions and the destruction of some of the greatest cities in asia. 1229-1279: overthrew the abbasid dynasty in persia, burned baghdad, conquered kievan russia, terrorized eastern europe, and defeated china"s sung dynasty.
