Strayer 12, da Mongols!

10/31/2015

Post or die! There is no choice. Aaaaaaargh!

Bingham

11/1/2015 09:24:45 am

Really? No one wants to use the forum? You're all so confident in your solitary study routine that you don't need help? Well, that's okay, I'm busy reading about the spread of Buddhism in China, over, and over and over...
I will throw you this bone before I get back to essays.

What accounts for the political and military success of the Mongols?

By the end of Chinggis Khan’s reign, the Mongol Empire had developed an ideology centered on a mission to unite the whole world in one empire.

The Mongol army was better organized, better led, and better disciplined than the armies of its opponents. Milk and meat makes for some pretty bad dudes, especially against people living on wheat or rice!

The Mongol army was organized to diminish the divisive tribalism of the pastoral clan structure, partly by spreading members of tribes among different units of the army. This was part of Temujin’s genius.

The Mongols made up for their small numbers by incorporating huge numbers of conquered peoples into their military forces.

The Mongols quickly acquired Chinese techniques and technology of siege warfare, which allowed them to overcome the elaborate fortifications of walled cities.

Mongol forces were effective in part because of their growing reputation for a ruthless brutality and utter destructiveness. Their reputation served as a form of psychological warfare, a practical inducement to surrender. Nothing like a solid rep!

The Mongols displayed an impressive ability to mobilize both the human and material resources of their growing empire through census taking, an effective system of relay stations for rapid communication, and the beginnings of a centralized bureaucracy in the capital of Karakorum.

The Mongols fostered commerce.

The Mongols drew on conquered peoples to fill advisory and lower-level administrative positions.

The Mongols welcomed and supported many religious traditions as long as they did not become the focus of political opposition.

Now, turn that into a spatially based, silly story so you can recall it on the test.

cathleen

11/1/2015 01:58:44 pm

Bingham's inner mongol: "Post or die! There is no choice. Aaaaaaargh!" Talk about mongols being brutal.
I'll take a stab at "In what ways did pastoral societies differ from their agricultural counterparts?"
Pastoral societies had less productive economies and smaller population than agriculture societies.
People of pastoral societies lived in small, widely scattered encampemnts of related kinfolk rather than villages, towns, or cities.
Pastoral societies gave women a higher status than agricultural societies with less restrictions, and greater roles. (Specifically in the Mongols, women could remarry and initiate divorce. They also served as political advisers and military affairs. They were pretty on par with men for horseback riding and shooting)
Pastoral societies were much more mobile than agricultural societies and were referred to as nomads.
Anything anyone wants to add?
Don't be ma-SHY-i.
(that was supposed to be funny, because the masai of east africa)

mabel hartman

11/1/2015 06:12:57 pm

MQ #4 : Did the history and society of the East African Masai people parallel that of the Asian nomads?
There were both parallels and non-parallels between the East African Masai and the people of the Asian nomads. One example of a parallel: the Masai believed that their pastoral way of living was superior to their agricultural neighbors'. The agricultural neighbors believed that the Masai were lazy, arrogant barbarians. Over in Asia, the Chinese and Xiongnu held similar viewpoints of each other. The Masai regularly engaged in war and traded with their agricultural neighbors, like the Asiatic nomads.
One example of a non-parallel would be the absence of large states and chiefdoms. They did not develop between either pastoral or agricultural people like they did in Inner Eurasia. Instead, the nomadic Masai were bound together by village ties and the ritual young boys underwent (circumcision).

Bingham

11/1/2015 06:45:01 pm

Good, it looks as though you are thinking clearly about this question.
1. I agree, there is an absence of large states in Africa compared to central Asia. Instead, the nomadic cattle-keeping Masai and their settled agricultural neighbors were bound together by the ties of village and clan as well as through an initiation ritual that created a profound and lasting bond among the adolescent boys of various villages and lineages.
2. And you have it right here as well, but I would phrase it this way: The Masai did not fully abandon cultivation until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries C.E.
3. and then I think you missed another similarity the Masai experience did parallel that of Asian nomads in that they regularly traded with or raided agricultural peoples.

Hallie Schulze

11/1/2015 07:24:38 pm

Here's something that I found while surfing YouTube for videos on Mongols..... I just thought it was funny :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkL2YqP2-A

mabel hartman

11/2/2015 07:32:17 pm

MQ # 3: In what ways did the Xiongnu, Arabs, and Turks make an impact on world history?
The Xiongnu made egalitarian societies into more centralized and hierarchical societies with more power focused on the ruler and with the creation of "junior" and "senior clans
Islam emerged from the Arab empire along with shock troops that carved out the Arab empire
The Xiongnu created a model that the Turks and Mongols later followed
The Turks carried Islam new places; played an important part in heartland of Islamic civilization

Hallie Schulze

11/2/2015 08:25:37 pm

Hey! Here's a quick reading tip that I have found helps me. I often find myself not interested in or falling alseep while I read (especially when it's 10 pm and I haven't started the chapter). So, to help make the reading more interesting, i listen to film scores from various genres of movies while reading. It makes it a lot more fun because it adds this element of wmotion or suspense to the reading that wasn't there before. It also creates mental pegs (as Mr. Bingham said) that help you memorize the content, and there are no distracting lyrics or melodies that you know, unless you are like me and have memorized the Harry Potter themes. :)

I hope this helps someone!! The best scores in my opinion are Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and (of course) the Pirates if the Carribean. Happy Reading!!

Hallie Schulze

11/2/2015 08:27:20 pm

*emotions

Diego

11/7/2015 04:18:47 pm

There's less and less people posting answers on these blogs. Kinda the opposite of last year's class.

Diego

11/7/2015 04:20:01 pm

But then again, I'm in no position to be complaining

Bingham

11/7/2015 04:47:49 pm

Yeah, and last year's class rocked the exam. What does that tell you?

Do you want me to put up a forum for this chapter?

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