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HIST 103-01, Introduction to Historical Investigation: The Mongol World Empire, Spring 2000
Drompp, Michael R.
Drompp, Michael R.
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Abstract
The world’s largest contiguous land empire was created by a people whose history is little
known and whose way of life would not immediately suggest the likelihood of such an
achievement. Yet the Mongol conquest affected most of Eurasia, including China, Korea, Japan,
Southeast Asia, Tibet, Inner Asia, Iran, the Middle East, Russia, and Europe. Armies under
Mongol leadership battled armored knights in Poland, Japanese samurai on the coast of Kyushu,
elephant-mounted warriors in the jungles of Burma, Chinese ships on the Yangzi River, and the
armies of Islam, as well as rival nomadic tribes. Who were these people, and what caused them
to burst out of their remote homeland to overthrow the great states of Eurasia? What factors
allowed such a small and thinly-scattered population to conquer much of the known world, and
what finally stopped them? This course will examine these questions and more as we seek to
understand the Mongol Empire and its impact on world history. As a course in historical
investigation, we will also seek to understand sources and their use, and how/why history is
written.
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