1. Do Now Get out your notebooks
Also make a new section titled “The Mongols”

2. The Mongols: A Brief History

3. How does the Mongol Empire Stack up to other great empires?

4. Roman Empire: 5 million km2

5. Mongol Empire: 24 million km2

6. The Mongol Empire 1206-1368 The second largest empire in history
The largest contiguous empire in history
Lasted only 150 years

7. The Mongols A confederation of people.
The various ethnic groups that compose the Mongols lived north of China for millennia.

8. Genghis Khan Also known as Chinggis Khan Unified the Mongol peoples
Launched a series of conquests

9. Mongol Conquest:

10. Mongol Conquests The Mongols conquer: China Tibet Khwarezmia Persia
Mesopotamia
Eastern Europe
All of Central Asia

11. Mongol Armies Extremely successful Undefeated from 1206-1260
By 1270, they could be found from Poland to Japan to Egypt to Vietnam

12. Questions about the Mongols:
How did a small group of people manage to conquer almost all of Asia?
How did the Mongol Empire affect regions it conquered?
We will be looking towards both with a Webquest today.

13. Task: Choose a partner or trio
Take a laptop and head to the website identified on the webquest (is hyperlinked on Mr Best’s site)
Follow the directions on the webquest worksheet.