1. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History First Edition
Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History First Edition
CHAPTER 12
Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage:
The Mongol Moment
1200–1500
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

2. Looking Back and Looking Around: The Long History of Pastoral Nomads
The World of Pastoral Societies
The Xiongnu: An Early Nomadic Empire
The Arabs and Turks
The Maasai of East Africa

3. Break-Out: The Mongol Empire
From Temujin to Chinggis Khan: The Rise of the Mongol Empire
Explaining the Mongol Moment

4. Encountering the Mongols:
Comparing Three Cases
China and the Mongols
Persia and the Mongols
Russia and the Mongols

5. The Mongol Empire as a Eurasian Network
Toward a World Economy
Diplomacy on a Eurasian Scale
Cultural Exchange in the Mongol Realm
The Plague: A Eurasian Pandemic

6. Chapter 12 Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Movement, 1200–1500
Map 12.1 The Mongol Empire (p. 342)
Map 12.2 Trade and Disease in the Fourteenth Century (p. 355)
Spot Map 12.1 The Xiongnu Confederacy (p. 338)
Spot Map 12.2 The Masai of East Africa (p. 340)
Chinggis Khan at Prayer (p. 332)
The Scythians (p. 336)
The Masai (p. 341)
A Mongol Warrior (p. 346)
Marco Polo and Khubilai Khan (p. 349)
Mongol Russia (p. 352)
The Plague (p. 357)