2. What was the largest empire in the history of mankind? Nope…not the Romans Close..but not Alexander’s Greek Hellenistic Empire Persians….nah Not the Mughals…or the Ottomons… No, Not the Aztecs…

3. Mongols

4. By total area: British Empire (1922), 33.7 million square km spread all over the world By contiguous (unbroken) area: Mongol Empire (ca 1300), 33.0 million sq. km By% of world population: Persian Empire (ca. 480 BC), 44% By % of world GDP: USA (1945) 33%

6. Matching 1. Ghengiz KhanA. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in 2. Kublai KhanB. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing 3. Zhu YuanzhangC. United the various Mongol Tribes 4. Ming DynastyD. Age of Mongol rule in China 5. Yuan DynastyE. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall

7. Matching 1. Ghengiz KhanA. Golden Age that Zheng He was living in 2. Kublai KhanB. Marco Polo visited me in Beijing 3. Zhu YuanzhangC. United the various Mongol Tribes 4. Ming DynastyD. Age of Mongol rule in China 5. Yuan DynastyE. Peasant leader of revolt that pushed Mongols back beyond the Great Wall

9. Skilled horsemen Expert warriors on horseback

10. Rival Mongol clans fought each other ____________________

11. Genghiz Khan The chieftain that united all the Mongol clans

12. The Golden Horde Forced conquered people to pay TRIBUTE! ?

13. Walled cities Mongols had a problem getting inside the walled cities of China Incorporated canons in his arsenal

14. Territories Mongols took northern China, Russia, and Muslim lands

15. Pax Mongolia What does PAX mean? Protected the road across Eurasia Cultural diffusion

16. Kublai Khan Genghiz Khan’s grandson Took over the Song dynasty

17. You with us?  What are the 6 Chinese dynasties you learned this year?  Did you read? Describe the dynasty created by Kublai Khan-  What is the next Dynasty that claims the “mandate of heaven” after Kublai Khan dies?  Who is one famous person that comes out of the Ming dynasty?

18. Yuan Dynasty Mongol dynasty Only allowed Mongols in the military and government

19. Marco Polo Visits China during Kublai Khan’s rule

20. Ming Dynasty The Yuan Dynasty is overthrown by the Ming dynasty –Chinese dynasty –Restored the civil service test, and Confucian Ideals

22. Zheng He 1405 62 large ships & hundreds of smaller ships 25,000 sailors Prime directive: to promote trade and collect tribute

23. South East Asia S.E. Asia India Red Sea Persian Gulf

24. Zheng He dies 1433 Ming outlaws sea- ship building –Why?

25. Why? High cost & little return Ethnocentrism

26. 60 years later….. Christopher Columbus sails from Spain