How Barbaric
were the
Mongols?
DQ: How can we as engineers design an effective vehicle capable of Mon/Tues 9/23- 9/24
Today’s traveling to a solar body in order to harvest extraterrestrial resources to
be used on planet Earth?
Focus Demonstration of
LO: 2A. Identify a source’s point of view,
purpose, historical situation, and/or Learning
Audience Students will identify a source’s point of view,
purpose and audience through annotations of
❏ Warm Up- Discussion Post (10) documents on the Mongols to prepare for a
❏ The Mongols Docs Annotations (30) DBQ essay and write the DBQ essay
❏ Review Document Questions (15) answering the Question- “How barbaric were
the Mongols?”
❏ DBQ Essay (40)
❏ AP DBQ complete essay
❏ Prep- DBQ summary & Essay outline
Reminders
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Today’s Agenda
ON CANVAS—
1. Warm Up- Vocab Review
2. Documents Annotations/Questions
3. DBQ Essay/Outline
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DBQ Prompt we are Preparing For…
How “barbaric” were the
Mongols?
What is a DBQ?
DBQ stands for…
Document Based Question
For all DBQ assessments, you are
posed either a question or
prompt in which you must craft a
cogent essay response by
utilizing evidence acquired from a
handful of provided sources (aka
the documents)
Barbarian:
A term often used to refer
to a member of a
community or tribe a
different land, culture, or
group believed to be
inferior, uncivilized, or
violent by other
civilizations. Initially was
commonly used by the
Greeks, Romans but was
widely used by many
civilizations throughout
history.
Conquering the world on
horseback is easy; it is
dismounting and governing
that is hard.
Genghis Khan
The Mongol Empire- the Khanates
In the 13th century CE the Mongols created the
largest connected landmass empire in the history of
the world. For centuries they have been remembered
as a brutal tribe of nomadic barbarians who were a
serious threat to people and civilizations throughout
Asia and Europe. But is there more to the story? How
barbaric were these barbarians?
Temujin aka Genghis Khan (1162-1227)
● Temujin earned the title Genghis Khan
(universal ruler) in 1206 after uniting the
various Mongol tribes.
● Genghis Khan united the warring tribes
● In 12011 the Mongols began their first
major attack on China that began more
than half a century of warfare.
China and the Mongols - the Yuan Dynasty
-China was most difficult of Mongol conquests - it took 70 years
from 1211 to 1279
-United northern China and Southern China which was under
the control of the Song Dynasty
-Mongols made use of Chinese administrative practices
(taxation, postal service)
-Ruled under the dynastic name the Yuan & moved capital to
Beijing.
-Improved roads, built canals, lowered taxes, patronized
scholars and artists like the Chinese dynasties before
them.
Influence of Mongols
Positive Impact Negative Impact
Secured routes of transport and communication Possibly spread the Black Death with increased trade
routes
Reunified China Decimated the Japanese cavalry and Korean
national treasures
Mongol control in Korea, reconnecting the region Mongol threats kept the Ming Empire (and Yongle via
after centuries of isolation explorer Zheng He) from developing their maritime
influence and ended the possibility of using seafaring
for commercial and military gain
Failed Mongol invasion of Japan hastened social Countryside did poorly during Yuan period (China) –
and political changes liked centralized political Mongol princes evicted many farmers and subjected
authority & encouraged the development of a nation the rest to brutal tax collection
infrastructure for trade & communication
Tolerant of outside religions
