Warm-up• Copy HW

• Please grab a handout from the front desk and complete question #1

• Make this page 28

Essential Question

•What happens when different cultures come in contact

with one another?

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

Genghis Khan

• Born 1160s

• “strong ruler” of the Mongols

• Army of 100,000

• Cruel… Used Terror to rule

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

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

Silk Road

Silk Road

• 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

Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China

• 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

Zheng He

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

Travels

Exploration Ships

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.