Who were the Mongols? How did the Mongols affect the medieval world? How did the Mongols treat trade in their empire? Why did Kublai Khan's attempts to invade Japan fail? Why was the Chinese Empire so powerful? How did Kublai Khan keep the Mongols in power?
Explain China's rise to prominence and Japan's emergence as a dominant cultural entity. What were the consequences of the Mongol invasions, economically, politically, and socially? Why were the Mongols unable to conquer Japan? Why did China and Japan choose isolationism?
Why did Constantinople become a rich and powerful city? Why did the Ottoman Empire fall? Why was the location of Constantinople important? Why were the Ottoman Turks able to conquer Constantinople? Why did crusaders take Constantinople? Why did Assyria fall? Why did the Fourth Crusade sack Consta...
Vote up the ancient cities you wish you could visit in their prime. In ancient times, the most powerful and influential cities in the world were located primarily in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Places like Alexandria, Jericho, and Carthage once were thought to be as...
[II]Chiang was never so powerful or so respected. He presumably kept the capital of China in Nanjing because he dare not try to rule from Beijing, surrounded as it was by the fragments of what had been Yuan Shikai’s Beiyang Army. Instead he tried to change the city’s name from ...
“build” the country or alter its age-old system—a purely punitive expedition, the second war’s only purpose was to ensure that czarist ambitions would halt at the Oxus/Amu Darya. The results were the same, however, as within their own territory the Afghans proved resistant to any form...
The boy was an eight-year-old named Mohammad. Their family’s house had been bombed in the middle of the night during the first days of the ISIS takeover and subsequent Iraqi government airstrikes. I never learned why or if they were specifically targeted. But the end result was that thi...
achieve the ultimate goal. In some cases, this can extend to which faction you select to play at the beginning of the game. InCivilization VTheodora and Byzantium are better suited to cultural supremacy, while Atilla and the Huns or Genghis Khan and the Mongols will do better with conquest....
attitude towards the powerful gas transportation system that had been left to them by the USSR was characteristic – they perceived it as a tool for blackmail. Unable to create or improve the system, they threatened to block or destroy it if they did not receive more money for the right to...
Why Did Europeans Explore The New World the empire of the Mongols was breaking up. That was the main reasonwhyEuropeans began to explore theworld‚ but there are many reasons‚ for example‚ the western merchants were no longer able to be assured of safe conduct alongside the land routes...