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The Decline

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the decline and fall of the mongol empire

07 World History

beginning of the decline

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COLLAPSE OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE

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TAMERLANE concentrated on collecting treasures

THERE WAS INTERNAL FIGHTING

collapse of the mongol empire

THE CHINESE WERE ABLE TO EXPEL THE MONGOLS FROM CHINA

THE CHINESE ENCOURAGED MONGOL INFIGHTING

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• When the Mongols settled into towns and gave up their nomadic ways, they found their zeal for conquest faded. • Because of their internal fighting, the Mongols’ control of China weakened. • The Chinese encouraged this fighting and viewed it as a way to break free from Mongol rule. • By 1368 the Chinese were able to expel the Mongols from China. • The Mughal Empire, a remnant of the southwestern Mongol Empire, lasted until the seventeenth century when the British arrived. • The Muslims closed the Silk Road. • Europeans sought to find other ways to the East. • The Age of European Exploration began.

  • Timur suffered from an accident during his youth and was lame.
  • Tamerlane became a powerful conqueror.
  • He referred to himself as the “sword of Islam.”
  • He forced many to become Muslim.
Timur—a Mongol leader in the fourteenth century who founded an empire in central Asia
  • He demonstrated unusual cruelty as he extended his empire from Turkey to India.
  • Tamerlane concentrated on collecting treasures taken in battle.
  • He persecuted the Nestorian Christians without restraint.