- more mobile
- less "civilized" (urban)
- traditional
- less likely to build things
- less agricultural
- eat a lot of animal products
- chinese had to protect their borders
- more egalitarian
Mongols..really? why not ?
- less population
- less property (stuff overall)
- women shared in the less stuff
Why barbarians?
- could attack and retreat
- they were very well organized (military structure)
- riding horses, sattles, stirrups
- maybe mandate of heaven were with the mongols because everything was going fairly well
- very large network of communication
Did the Mongols have a seminal thinker?
- accepted any religiong that they saw
- they were very adaptive
- vicious about how they could destroy town
- they were pilgramming
Why did Black Death or the Bubonic Plague cause so much damage?
- it was a vicious disease
- spread so fast
- very obvious when somebody had it
- people didn't help the sick, family or homeless
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