Mongol Empire results

1. Mongol Conquests and Empire
1200s - 1300s
Mongol Empire – Impacts
Good or Bad?
1200s - 1300s

4. MONGOL Empire - Results
• THE MONGOL PEACE
A period of “peace” and stability in many
areas of Eurasia led to economic and
cultural development (for about 100 years).

5. Trade & Infrastructure
Mongol rulers . . .
• protected travel and trade routes in the
Empire
• “caused” people to move to new places for
Mongol government and military posts
• ordered construction of ROADS &
BRIDGES, & extended the Grand Canal in
China
• set up post offices/trading posts

6. SILK ROADs REVIVED!
• Goods and ideas flowed! (Religious
tolerance, too.)
• East and West were more connected than
before (Western Europe was least devastated by the
Mongols but benefitted the most from the flow of goods and
ideas.)
• Plants and crops circulated
“Mongol rule allowed an “exchange of food, tools,
goods, and ideas [that] was unprecedented.”

8. Those dirty Mongols!
• Spread the use of gunpowder in military uses
• Destroyed empires, governments, & towns (&
killed millions) in some areas destroyed
agricultural lands
• Spread the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death)
beginning in the 1330s and lasting for several
decades.

11. THE BLACK
DEATH
• What: A Bubonic and
Pneumonic plague
pandemic
• When: 1330s - 1350s
and continuing
sporadically for
hundreds of years
• Where: Began
somewhere in Central
Asia and spread to
East and West along
trade routes w/
Mongol armies.

12. THE BLACK DEATH
• In Asia and the Islamic World, medical
advancements – treatments and
hospitals-- and sanitation efforts
limited the effects of the plague.
• As it spread into Western Europe, its
effects were more devastating.

13. • Ring around the rosie, pocket full
of posies, ashes, ashes WE ALL
FALL DOWN!