The document discusses the expansion of Central Asian powers and their influence on globalization. It compares how a superpower in the early 2000s used military might against militants in Central Asia and Afghanistan similarly to how Genghis Khan and the Mongols assaulted Baghdad. The consequences of these actions in establishing new local governments and cultural assimilation are considered. Sources that argue nomadic peoples played an important cultural diffusion role are also referenced.

1. Central Asia
• Superpower vs. Islamic militant & suicidal
extremists hiding in mountain retreats of
Persia/Central Asia.

2. Central Asia
• Superpower uses heavy military might to
impose peace
 Persia to destroy their headquarters.
• Terrorists go underground.
• Superpower looks for further signs of
political instability
– Superpower vs. Sunni dictator in Baghdad
• Execution, with help from disenfranchised locals
(Shi’ites).

3. Hulegu vs. Pres. Bush
• Similarities
– Threat
– Assault
– Baghdad
• Consequences?
– Local government (democracy?)
– Assimilation…?

4. The Mongols:
Globalization
2.0

5. Who cares about pastoral peoples?
• Gregory Guzman, “Were the Barbarians a
Negative or Positive Factor in Ancient and
Medieval History?” The Historian (August
1988): 558-72
– Distorted sources?
– Settled peoples relied on nomads
– Cultural diffusion

6. A video!
• Let’s watch Peter Stearns

7. Pax Mongolica…?

8. "Frère Jacques”

9. The Chinese Dynasties (sung to the
tune of "Frère Jacques”)
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

10. Activity: Comparison Thesis!
I am Genghis
Khan and I
say you WILL
write a good
thesis!