Were not a focus point of world history up until this point, they did have several Genghis, or Genghis Khan, the great Khan, the great The various nomadic tribes and declares in 1206 a Mongol Empire you see here in this yellow color. Of Temujin arise in Mongolia and he's able to unite In the late twelfth andĮarly thirteenth centuries, you have a leader by the name That become the main catalyst for change over the next But in the midst of all of this, it ends up being a nomadic people that we really haven't talked a lot about in our survey of world history We study the Song Dynasty, which is one of the really high points of Chinese civilization, although they're suspicious Pakistan, and Afghanistan is under control of the Ghurid Sultanate, with the rest of India being divided amongst various Hindu kingdoms. The Abbasid Caliphate is still around, although it is now have been fragmented into many different Muslim empires. In the Middle East and Persia, you have the golden age of Islam.

Left of the true Roman Empire, is on the decline, losing more and more In the year 1200, the thirdĬrusade has just ended and is mildly successful, but Jerusalem is still inĬontrol of the Muslims. The kings of western EuropeĪre caught up in the Crusades.

Let's just give ourselvesĪ little bit of context of what the world looks like. It is the year 1200 and the world is about toĬhange in dramatic fashion.

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