MESAS 200W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mongol Invasions And Conquests, Hoelun, Turkic Peoples

• School: Emory University
• Department: Middle Eastern & South Asian
• Course: MESAS 200W
• Professor: Dr. Margariti Roxani

Document Summary

Legacy of genghis khan: courtly art and culture in western asia, 1256 1353 the. Mongols are a new group of ppl linguistically and ethnically that come into the middle. Turkimongol sovereignty - turkic mongol groups mixed together which later slowly formed into the 3 early time periods: ottomans, sataviols, mughals. Genghis khan ca1160s - 1227 - unified the mongol tribes, looking for new terrainsbut before that, disunity was the norm. Khan is the mongol title of sovereignty - leader of the mongols. The wives of the khans would sit next to them on the thrones. Create the largest continuous land empire in world history. The first conquests were very quick and they were met with awe and shock. The 4 mongol khanates after chingiz kan: yuan, ilkhanate, chagatai, and golden. The il-khanate: persia and iraq under mongol rule. Muslim historians bemoan the arrival of the mongols in the 1220s. But still not the end of islam.