And Japan in fact the Mongol empires had tried a naval expedition on Japan and it failed miserably.

The Pursuit of Persian Language in Mughal Politics.

Now, there were a few crucial exceptions to the Mongol conquests.

This, of course, coincided with the fragmentation of the Mongol empire that in a sense really did not outlive the work of

This map shows the way the Marathas were carving up pieces of the Mogul domain as it began to recede.

You mean open it?

Russia, Poland, all the way to China were incorporated into the Mongol Empire.

So, here we have interconnected worlds.

So, let's pause and just reflect a little bit on the significance of what's going on in the Mogul or Mughal empire in the middle of the 1700s.

You two would storm the walls of Baghdad and attack the Mongol armies singlehanded?

lot of people think of Genghis Khan and the Mongol conquest as in a sense, an exhibit of, of oppression.

Embassy The embassy went to Cracow, Prague, Florence, Rome, Madrid, London, and returned to Persia through the Great Mogul's India.

Also he had stopped the trade between the Newar people living in the Kathmandu Valley and the Muslim Mughal Empire in India.

Intermarrying members of the Mongol elite with the local elites, alliances of men with each other across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

For their commerce in silk and spices and so forth continued to be very important for sustaining the Mongol Empire itself.

So, while the Mongol empire was an ephemeral one, for a moment at least political model of integration was coupled to the economic process of integration that we have been talking about.

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In a sense was a terrible blow to that emerging system that we described in the last lecture of commercial interconnection and increasing a political connections across the Mongol Empire.

At the end of the last lecture, I left you with the sound of hoofbeats of Mongol Empire and chariots and cavalries sweeping across Eurasia from Baghdad to Beijing, adding a layer of political interconnectedness to what was already a process of increasing religious, economic and social interconnectedness across the Eurasian world.

A second Persian embassy to Europe (1609 1615) would be set up, this time led by Robert Sherley himself, which went to Cracow, Prague, Florence, Rome, Madrid, London, and returned to Persia through the Great Mogul's India.

The Mongol Empire was, in many respects, a brotherly empire stitched together through weddings and diplomacy, exchanges of gifts, and so those silk roads, those caravans that I talked about earlier, continued to ply their traffic.

If in East Asia the most powerful empire was the Qing, in South Asia the powerful empire in the 1600's, and much of the 1700s, had been the Mogul empire.