2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Feb 12, 2025  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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HST 305 - The Mongol Legacy

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirements DE and HU.
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): HS and GP
The Mongol invasions changed the societies of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.  The Mongol armies swept away long-established states and introduced new political arrangements and ideologies.  This course will investigate the rise and fall of the Mongol world empire with special emphasis on how these developments affected the states and peoples of the Middle East.  The conquests of Genghis Khan in the thirteenth century followed a pattern established by earlier Eurasian steppe empires.  We will also study the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of the nomadic invasions.  The period of study is bracketed by the rise of the Mongol world empire at one end and the conquests of Tamerlaine at the other.
Meets Department pre-Modern Requirement



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