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CHAPTER 8 SECTION 2THE MONGOLS AND CHINA

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DUE IN PART TO THEIR MILITARY POWER, THE MONGOLS ROSE TO POWER IN ASIA QUICKLY.

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THEY BROUGHT MUCH OF EURASIA UNDER SINGLE RULE, CREATING THE LARGEST LAND EMPIRE IN HISTORY.

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- 1231 attacked Persia- 1258 defeated the Abbasids- 1260s attacked Song dynasty- Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Japan

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- THE MONGOLS HAD GREAT SUCCESS RULING CHINA. OVER TIME, THEY WON THE SUPPORT OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY BROUGHT STABILITY AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

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THE CAPITAL OF KHANBALIK REFLECTED MONGOL PROSPERITY – IT WAS MAGNIFICENT.

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MARCO POLO WROTE STORIES ABOUT GLORIOUS CHINA – MOST EUROPEANS THOUGHT HIS STORIES OF GLORIOUS CHINA WERE UNBELIEVABLE.

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SAD NEWS! THE MONGOL DYNASTY EVENTUALLY FELL VICTIM TO

- wasteful spending on foreign conquests- corruption- growing internal instability

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IN 1368 ZHU YUANZHANG, THE SON OF A PEASANT, PUT TOGETHER AN ARMY AND ENDED THE MONGOL DYNASTY. HE SET UP THE “MING DYNASTY”.

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