Ch+18+Change_Continuity

By:The Germans(Brett Krumenacker and Shane Daggett)
 * Change and Continuity of Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration**


 * Turkish Migrations**


 * the Turks went from a meek diplomacy to a ravenous empire in a subsequent amount of time.
 * They were Polytheistic in the beginning but soon recognized Buddhism and Confucianism as truthful and profound doctrines.
 * When the Turks took Persia they placed caliphs as figureheads to the public and appointed sultans to local power and control of diplomacy.
 * The Turks began their conquest of the Byzantium empire in 1071 and toppled the capital of Constantinople in 1453.
 * The Turks had conflicting agendas and split into the Saljuqs(headed west) and the Ghaznavids(headed east).
 * The Ghaznavids established a non-nomadic civilization when they settled in northern India.


 * Birth of the Mongolian Empire**


 * The man who unified the Mongol empire under one ruler was Temujin or Chinggis Khan.
 * The Mongolian people were originally tribal groups, but under Chinggis Khan, became a powerful military organization.
 * Policies much better than the old, were established unto the Mongolian empire, by Chinggis Khan.
 * Enemies who surrendered to the Mongolian armies, were treated kindly by the armies, but any enemy who resisted the Mongols, were slaughtered, or used as shields in future battles.
 * They went on many conquests, and conquered many lands.
 * Upon taking control of China, they raided the capital, until the raids became campains of conquest.
 * The Mongol empire, was split into four regional empires, after the death of Chinggis Khan.
 * The Mongol empire did not expand its borders very much after Chinggis Khan's death.
 * Mongol rulers realized they needed to become governers, as well as governers, and failed to acomidate this role.
 * The Mongols tolerated all religions, until Ilkhan Ghazan publicly converted to Islam, influencing the conversion of hundreds of Mongols, and the slaughter of Christians and Jews.
 * Long-distance travel and trade became more prominant then in earlier eras, because of Mongolian orders in their realms.
 * The Mongol policy of resettling people in new lands, encouraged Eurasian integration.


 * Decline of the Mongols, and after the Mongols**


 * The ilkhan in Persia introduced paper money, a failure int he financial business, and lead to the fall of commerce, and eventually, Mongolian rule.
 * Mongol rule in China collapsed because of economic dimensions, factional divisions, and epidemic diseases.
 * As the strength that the Mongols had garnered over the years waned, the Turks resumed the expansive campains that the Mongols had interupted.
 * The turkish conqueror Tamerlane took the land in Persia that the Mongols had vaccated.
 * Tamerlane's reign was split in four after his death, because of bitter conflicts between his sons and grandsons.


 * Foundation of the Ottoman Empire**

Checked by Sarah delgado**
 * Took the place of Tamerlane's reign after his last vestiges disappeared.
 * Osman, the founder of the Ottoman empire, broke away from the saljuq turks, to build his own state, at the expense of the Byzantine empire.
 * Changed from a nomadic society, when the constructed a foothold in the Balkan peninsula.
 * Tamerlane temporarily stopped the conquests, destroying the Ottoman empire, and subjecting it to his rule, until his death.
 * Captured Constantinople, renamed it Istanbul, and converted it as the capital of the Ottoman empire.
 * Checked by:Kelsey Shoberg**
 * approved-- ERIC ZHONG