Do Now:
1. What is a nomad?(look in glossary)
2. Name three characteristics of the nomads of the steppes.
a.
b.
c.
3. Name three reasons for the success of the Mongols as conquerors.
a.
b.
c.
4. What were two effects of the MOngols on Central Asia?
a.
b.
" Big domestic mammals ...revolutionized human society by becoming our main means of land transport until the development of railroads in the 19th century. Before animal domestication, the sole means of transporting goods and people by land was on the backs of humans. Large mammals changed that: for the first time in human history, it became possible to move heavy goods in large quantities, as well as people, rapidly overland for long distances...The most direct contribution of animal domestication to wars of conquest was from Eurasia's horses, whose military role made them the Jeeps and Sherman tanks of ancient warfare on that continent."
1. What is a nomad?(look in glossary)
2. Name three characteristics of the nomads of the steppes.
a.
b.
c.
3. Name three reasons for the success of the Mongols as conquerors.
a.
b.
c.
4. What were two effects of the MOngols on Central Asia?
a.
b.
" Big domestic mammals ...revolutionized human society by becoming our main means of land transport until the development of railroads in the 19th century. Before animal domestication, the sole means of transporting goods and people by land was on the backs of humans. Large mammals changed that: for the first time in human history, it became possible to move heavy goods in large quantities, as well as people, rapidly overland for long distances...The most direct contribution of animal domestication to wars of conquest was from Eurasia's horses, whose military role made them the Jeeps and Sherman tanks of ancient warfare on that continent."
