CHAPTER 1: ANCIENT AMERICA BEFORE 1492



[[Chapter 12: Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200–1500]]

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CHAPTER 12: Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200–1500

o Looking Back and Looking Around: The Long History of Pastoral Nomads

• The World of Pastoral Societies

• The Xiongnu: An Early Nomadic Empire

• The Arabs and the Turks

• The Masai of East Africa

o Breakout: The Mongol Empire

• From Temujin to Chinggis Khan: The Rise of the Mongol Empire

• Explaining the Mongol Moment

o Encountering the Mongols: Comparing Three Cases

• China and the Mongols

• Persia and the Mongols

• Russia and the Mongols

o The Mongol Empire as a Eurasian Network

• Toward a World Economy

• Diplomacy on a Eurasian Scale

• Cultural Exchange in the Mongol Realm

• The Plague: A Eurasian Pandemic

o Reflections: Changing Images of Nomadic Peoples

o Documents—Considering the Evidence: Perspectives on the Mongols

• Document 12.1: Mongol History from a Mongol Source

• Document 12.2: A Letter from Chinggis Khan

• Document 12.3: A Russian View of the Mongols

• Document 12.4: Chinese Perceptions of the Mongols

• Document 12.5: Mongol Women through European Eyes

o Visual Sources—Considering the Evidence: The Black Death and Religion in Western Europe

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