1. Warm-up Copy HW Please grab a handout from the front desk and complete question #1 Make this page 28

2. Essential Question What happens when different cultures come in contact with one another?

3. The Mongols From Mongolia Raised goats, sheep, cattle and horses Tribes Great horsemen Great warriors Used gun powder Constant battles with the Chinese * Respect the cultures they conquered

4. Genghis Khan Born 1160s “strong ruler” of the Mongols Army of 100,000 Cruel… Used Terror to rule

5. Mongols Rule China… Kublai Khan ( Genghis Khan’s grandson ) * Friends with Marco Polo New capital-Beijing Mongol culture was much different from the Chinese, so they ruled but didn’t mix with the Chinese people This was a “Golden age for China” 1200/1300s

6. Marco Polo Traveler, trader, writer Travel from Italy to China Friends w/ Kublai Khan Wrote a book of his journeys Educated and amazed Europeans of the wonders of China

7. Silk Road

8. Large trade network stretching 4,000 miles China to SW Asia Merchants used camels to travel across the desert and mountains Travel was expensive and dangerous Merchants had to pay taxes to many kingdoms along the way So…only high priced goods could be transported this way

9. Great Wall of China

10. The Great Wall of China

11. What was the purpose of the wall? Protect the Chinese Empire Allowed the governments of China to tariff goods transported along the Silk Road Control immigration

12. Zheng He Commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433.

13. Travels

14. Exploration Ships

15. Closure Please write down three things that happen when the Chinese people came in contact with other cultures! Please share those ideas with a someone seated near you.