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Bibliography

  • Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. New York: New Press :, 2007. A book where we got a quote from Wang Li, a person who lived under the reign of the Mongols in China. The quote shows how everything seemed a lot closer when the Mongols ruled. Travel was much easier and fortunes seekers could go thousands of Li easily to find what they were looking for.

 

  • Brown,Miranda, and Schirokauer, Conrad. A Brief History of Chinese civilization. Published by Wadsworth Publishing (2006). A book that was used to gain knowledge about how the Mongols changed and influenced China.

 

  • Buell, Paul. How Genghis Khan Has Changed the World. Published by Western Washington University, date unknown. http://www.mongolianculture.com/. Information about the Pax Mongolica. Brief history on the rulers of the Mongol Empire. How the Pope reacted to the invaders. And Persia’s interactions with the Mongols.

 

  • Crowley, Robert. What If?: The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been. Published by the Penguin Publishing Group in 9/28/2000. Book about the Mongol invasion of Europe, and what would have happened if the Mongol had pressed further in Europe. It also gave us an insight about how advanced the Mongol tactics were to that of the Europeans.

 

 

  • Johnson, Jean, “The Mongol Dynasty: When Kublai Khan ruled China” Asia society.org, published in 2015, http://asiasociety.org/mongol-dynasty?page=0,2. Secondary information on Kublai Khan’s rule over China. Information that he moved the capital to Beijing and about the Yuan dynasty.

 

  • Mclynn, Frank.  Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy. Published by Da Capo Press, 2015. This was a major source of information on the Mongol Empire. We used it to learn about Genghis Khan and how he built his empire. Also about how he and his sons administered such a large territory.  

 

  • Prawdin, Michael. The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy. Revision 4. Edited in London by Allen and Unwin, 1961. Additional historical sources and the rise of the Mongol Empire, and their interactions between East and West.

 

  • Rossabi, Morris. “The Mongols in World History” Columbia University, 2005, http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/history/history.htm . Primary and secondary sources for the Mongol Empire. Their invasions of China and Persia, and the death and destruction they brought with them. This is a big bulk of where our information came from. We gained some primary pictures from here as well. Also showed us some additional book on the empire, and gained knowledge on their contributions to society. Also gained primary knowledge on Marco Polo’s expeditions, and the palace of the Great Khan.

 

 

 

  • Unknown, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

       An image of Khubilai Khan

 

  • Unknown, Publisher Unknown, June 2006

       Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis          Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294).

 

  • THE STANFORD PROGRAM ON INTERNATIONAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION, Date unknown.

       A map of the Silk Road trade route

 

  • Contemporanea Progetti, Florence, Italy, Date unknown

       An image of Marco Polo

 

        Image of the Yuan Dynasty

 

  • Unknown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

       An Image of the Dynasties in China before the Mongol Invasions

 

       Compilation of different documemtaires on the Mongol Empire

 

  • Dr. Karsten Wesche, Khentey, Northern Mongolia, March 24, 2015

       An image of the Asian Steppe (Background)

 

  • Unknown, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

       An image of Genghis Khan

 

    

 

 

This website was created by Spencer Drost with the aid of research provided by Mitchell Bowen

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