I.) THE MONGOL EMPIRE

1. The situation in China: Liao Dynasty or Khitan Empire of Bejing (907-1123)
2. Temujin, with His Title, Genghis Khan (1162-1227 ); Artifacts; Mongolian Bureaucracy; Map of the Empire
3. Merit over Birth or Nationality in the army along with Gunpowder
4. By 1240, Golden Horde in all Russia but Novgorad; Baghdad sacked in 1258
5. Kublai Khan (1260-94) & Marco Polo
• Organized and Open System of Civil Service
• Capital City just outside Bejing
6. Problems of Succession and Control over long distances
7. Diversity became Differences, army weakened, control disunified

1. 1368: First Emperor drove out the Mongols: Hated foreigners validated
2. The might-have-been of the Ming Navy; Empress Xiaoduan's Dragon Crown

1. Mongolian Invasion of 1281 vs the Kamikazee or Divine Wind
2. Medieval Japanese Samurai; Culture;

1. Turkish Consolidation ca. 1300
2. Beat the Serbs at Kosovo, 1389
3. Mohammed II stormed the walls of Constaninople, 1453
4. Culture of the Sultanate; Ottoman Art

1. Vikings and Earliest Russia; Art throughout Russian history; Orthodox Icons;
2. Grand Duke Ivan III rejected paying tribute to the Mongols, 1480
3. Forced conversions in the Baltic Crusades set Russia's face away from the West