MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Khwarazmian Dynasty, Chabi, Curved Bow

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 13
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

Mongols were a warrior based society: warriors fought till the age of 60, when they retired, spoils of war were shared, did not hoard them, also no salary. Fighting skills - very young age - they learnt to ride. In western asia, seljuk turks moved into the iranian heartland. In northeast asia, irst the whitens and then the. Jurchens: turkic slave-soldiers serving the abbasid caliphate known as mamluks, when the mongols were conquering lands, they were conquering nomadic empires and instead of destroying them, they were actually integrating all the diferent nomadic tribes under one banner. Jin (chin) dynasty - ended up being a protracted war - both were nomadic - the war ruined the productivity of northern. China - population before war : 50 million - population after war : 8 million - result of war : mongols inally subdued the.