Monday, December 1, 2014

Mongols..continued

What has been the role of nomadic pastorial people?

  • 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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