AP World History: Modern / Unit 2: Networks of Exchange (c. 1200–1450)
2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World
Notes
The Mongols (Genghis Khan) built the largest contiguous land empire. The Pax Mongolica made trade safer and spread technology, ideas (paper, gunpowder) and disease (Black Death).
Practice
The Pax Mongolica:
Mongol peace.
A negative consequence of Mongol connections:
Black Death.
The Mongols are known for:
Allowed many faiths.
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