1. Song Dynasty (960-1279)

2. Reunified China after 60 years Skillful government established a central bureaucracy

3. Because of private trade, merchant class grew – Exchanged goods via the silk road

4. Revived interest in Confucianism

5. Inventions of the Song Dynasty…..

6. Paper Money replaced string of metal cash used by merchants contributed to the large scale commercial economy in China

7. Moveable Type printer could arrange blocks of individual characters in a frame to make up a page for printing not see in Europe until 1400s

8. Magnetic Compass floating magnetized needle that always points north-south adapted by sailors to use at sea allowed China to become a major sea power

9. The Mongol Empire

10. Who are the Mongols? People located on the grasslands or steppes of central Asia Nomadic people who lived in portable tents Traveled in kinship groups, known as clans

11. Map of Mongolia

12. Mongolian Nomads

13. Temujin (1162-1227 AD) United all the steppe people into one unified group under one government Became known as Genghis Khan “universal ruler”

14. Achievements of Genghis Khan Created the notion of an absolute ruler or Khan Unified and greatly strengthened the Mongol military

15. Achievements of Genghis Khan Unified all laws into a code known as Yasa Took over China, leading to the development of the Yuan Dynasty

16. Achievements of Genghis Khan Within 50 years after he assumed rule, Mongols conquered territory from China to Poland, creating the largest unified land empire in history

17. Khanates : Following the death of Genghis Khan, his sons and grandsons continued the campaign of conquest Because the empire was so large, the land was divided into 4 regions called Khanates Run by offspring of Genghis Khan

18. Kublai Khan (1260-1294 AD) Brought peace and stability to the eastern point of the empire Established the Yuan Dynasty to China united all of China under 1 ruler

19. Kublai Khan Encouraged trading Allowed Italian merchant Marco Polo to stay in Peking for 17 years

21. Pax Mongolica: period of stability and law and order across Eurasia (mid 1200s -1300s AD)