Can somebody please answer these 5 questions with an explanation and answer?
1. How did the Crusades reshape the Medieval World?
2. How did the Mongols reunite the Medieval World?
3. How did the actions of the Mongols lead to the development of Pax Mongolica?
4. How did the Black Death affect Islamic North Africa?
5. How did the Black Death affect Mongol China?
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Answer:
The key context to understand here is that prior to the Mongols, very significant chunks of Eurasia were completely unknown to inhabitants of other parts. It wasn’t that they knew who they were but they didn’t know much about them, it was a level lower: they didn’t know who was out there. The most important thing the Mongols did was to connect, explore, and reveal the world. Prior to them, every nation was isolated in a small realm. The Mongols themselves did almost all their conquering in lands that Genghis Khan would have either not known existed or at best knew almost nothing about in his youth. A pre-Mongol, 12th century Marco Polo would have been unthinkable — there is a reason why we don’t hear records of this despite centuries of chances prior.
In other words, the Mongol conquests were as much about exploration as they were about conquest.
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