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The Silk Roads get reused again because people said why not, we love ourselves some tasty cultural exchange and trade.
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It is during this time that the Mongols are groups of pastoral nomads living in East Asia, north of the Gobi Desert.
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Temujin, aka Genghis or Chinggis Khan is born, causing a lot of people for eventually die.
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The Hanseatic League, a group of powerful nations, controls trade throughout the Silk Roads during this time.
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Period of unprecedented peace and, relative liberalism under the Mongol Empire.
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The Mongol Empire attempts to standardize their alphabet to the Uyghur Alphabet, but fail.
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Genghis Khan attends a kurilti and becomes ruler of the Mongols.
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The Mongols attack the Jin Empire, their neighbors, starting their violent conquering spree across Eurasia.
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The Mongols conquer the Central Asian Empire, Kara Khitai and the Islamic Empire, Khwarazm.
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The Mongol's Empire reaches from the North China Sea to Eastern Persia.
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Batu Khan and his army, the Golden Hoard, conquer Russia
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The Russian Capital of Kiev is destroyed when Batu Khan and his army attack it.
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Batu Khan and his army are successful in defeating Polish, German, French, and Hungarian Knights. (wow)
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Mongols take control of Dar al-Islam, destroy Baghdad and eventually cause us to do the House of Wisdom Project in AP World.
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The Mongols conquer China creating the Yuan Dynasty to govern for them.
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Ibn Battuta's lifespan, a Muslim traveler and writer.
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Europe suffers from an Epidemic of the Smallpox virus. (Relatable, right??)
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Zheng He travels to show the might of the Ming Dynasty, but is stopped because Zhu Gaozhi is rude and doesn't like people and is probably racist.
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Lifespan of Margery Kempe, a European traveler. Her autobiography shed light on the struggles of middle-class women.
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Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire after a 29-day siege.
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The Portuguese conquer Malacca, hoping to benefit from control of the Malaccan Strait, but it didn't work.