Name: Wait For It...The Mongols!: Crash Course World History #17
Uploaded: 2013-04-14T01:14:43.000Z
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Hi I’m John Green; this is crash course world history and today we’re gonna discuss…

So you probably have a picture of the Mongols in your head.

brutal bloodthirsty, swarthy, humorously mustachioed warriors riding the plains, wearing fur, eating

we imagine the Mongol empire as stereotypically barbarian.

But if you’ve been reading recent world history textbooks like we here at Crash Course

you might have a different view of the Mongols,

one that emphasizes the amazing speed and success of their conquests—

how they conquered more land in 25 years than the Romans did in 400.

How they controlled more than 11 million contiguous square miles.

that the Mongols basically created nations

One historian has even claimed that the Mongols

created the first great free trade zone, like a

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity.

We talked about them way back in episode one as an alternative to hunting and gathering

They don’t just go on like random road trips.

They migrate according to climate conditions so they can feed their flocks.

so they almost always live near settled people.

And 3. Because they live in generally live close

pastoralists tend to be tougher than diamond-plated differential calculus.

Or the Mongols. [sweet, familiar horns of the Mongol-tage

Pastoral people also tend to be more egalitarian,

when there’s less to go around, humans tend to share more,

and when both men and women must work for the social order to survive,

there tends to be less patriarchal domination of women.

Although Mongol women rarely went to war.

but then you also have the floopity flop,

I’m a historian. [suspiciously lacking a mustache]

If you had to choose a pastoral nomadic group to come out of central Asia and dominate the

you probably wouldn’t have chosen the Mongols.

Because for most of the history we’ve been discussing, they just hung out in the foothills

quietly getting really good at archery and riding horses.

Also the Mongols were much smaller than other pastoral groups

but the reason the Mongols came to dominate the world really started with one guy,

The story goes that Genghis or Chingus [?] Khan

was born around 1162 with the name Temujin

leaving Temujin under the control of his older brothers,

one of whom he soon killed during an argument.

By 19 he was married to his first and most important wife,

This was pretty common among the Mongols, Temujin’s mom had also been kidnapped.

Temujin proved his military mettle and he soon became a leader of his tribe,

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