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The Mongles were a very powerful fighting force. When villagers saw them coming they surrendered without a fight. What made them so powerful is the question. The Mongles were powerful because they traveled in groups, they had superior weaponry, and they were very oranized and skilled. They praticed siege warfare to conquer. Mongols came out of centeral Asia with amazing force. Mostly because there was a drought in their home and were looking for better land.
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Genghis Khan was the leader of the Mongols because he was able to unite all of the tribes. Then he went out to conquer the world. He starts with China's Song Dynasty.
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Ganghis Khan dies for reasons unknown. He leaves his vast empire to his sons.
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Under the comand of Batu Khan, the Golden Horde which was the area of the Mongol empire that was closest to Russia and Europe, destroyed Russia to expand their empire.
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The Black Pluage started in Asia and it killed so many soilders, the Mongols used them as bio-weapons as they catapulted them into a walled city they where invading.
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Kublai Khan became the next Great Khan when the last one died.
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The Mongols made thier first attempet to invade Japan to take over the world, but thier navel fleet got destroyed by a Kamikaze which we know as a person who kills himself to destroy something, but back then it was a severe storm or typhoon.
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Marco Polo "landed" in China as of to this day, we don't really know if he went.
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Kublai Khan finnally is able to finish invading China as he takes the capital away from the Song.
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Kubai Khan tries to gain the trust of the Chinese people by allowing them to keep their traditions and pratices.
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Trade explodes in the Mongol Empire because they conqured all of the silk road and they put armed guards posted along the trail
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The Mongols of Iikhanate conquered Persia and expand thier empire. Europe, India, and Japan dodged the silver bullet only because the Great Khan died and they turned back
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The Mongols made a second attempt to invade Japan to expand thier empire, but once again they were destroyed by a storm.
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The Mongols seeked to expand there empire so they tried to invade Java and other places. Disease, weather, and hot tempuature stopped them
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In Mongolia, the Great Khan,Kublai Khan, died of old age. Also loose India, Tiwan, Vietnam, and the rest of Southern Asia
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Zhu Yuanzhans killed the last Mongol emperor and founded the Ming Dynasty renamed Hongwu.
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Chinese rebles defeat the Mongols and got their country back. But they will always be remembered because of the terror and impact they caused throughout Asia and Europe.
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Hongwu died of old age and his son, Yonglo, became emperor of China.
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The Ming Dynasty made the Forbidden City in Beijing, China to show authority and power.
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Zheng He, Chinese-Muslim admiral, led many sea voyages all the way to Africa to show power.
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The new emperor stopped the voyages to Africa because his court thought that the reasorces could be put to better use protecting the borders.
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The people where fixing the defensive wall on the northern boarder of China to help defend against the Mongols and the Manchus piriodic invations.
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This Ming emperor tries to isolate China from missionaries and outside influence by closing all trade from China to the outside world.
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American crops reached China and the Chinese took it and planted it. This helped the food production grow.
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Matteo arrived in China because he had heard the wonderful things about China. He gained respect through accepting the culture and learning how to speek Chinese. He then was able to give China mathmatics and science.
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The Ming had lost many battles which had weakened their millitary. The Manchuria took advantage of this opertunity and invaded China. They created there own dynasty, the Qing. In this culture, men were requiered to have ponytails braided in thier hair called queue.
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He was a great leader of China because he lowered taxes and expanded the boarders.
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Qianlong was Kangxi's grandson and he brought the empire to it's greatest. He expanded the boarders to there farthest. Also he helped in the rise in agricultural production which lead to a population boom.
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The population of China rose to 300 million making it the largest country ever recorded. They can thank the agricultural boom fo this.
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He came to China to discuse the trade issue and was sent home because he displayed no kowtowing, or respect for someone in authority for the people.
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The Qing dynasty toppeled because the people and government couldn't keep up with the European technology. They would be the last government before the current government today.
