The mongolian empire prospered between the time of Ghangas Khan's rule and his grandson, Kublai Khan's rule. They conquered vast parts of China, Persia, Iran, and several other countries in Asia. Each country, however, did not know that the other ones existed until Genghis Khan came to power. But, like all previous empires and dynasties, the Mongolian empire came to an end. What factors lead to their downfall of the Mongolian Empire? What role did the empire’s leader, Kublai Khan, have in its ultimate demise?
The downfall of the Mongolian empire was caused by Kublai Khan's mentality. "I should adapt to my subjects, rather than they adapting to me." Kublai adopted much of Chinese tradition with lead to disputes among Mongol administrators. He was torn between establishing a stable country and following the traditions of his heritage. In an effort to regain the hearts of his Mongol subjects he waged war on Japan, his army suffered heavy losses costing the government lots of money, and because Kublai had encouraged the creation of paper currency there was inflation. After Kublai died a Chinese subject (extremist) saw his chance to seize power and reestablished the Chinese power back into China which lead to the Ming Dynasty.
ReplyDeleteKublai Khan, in my opinion, was the overall reason for the downfall of the Mongolian Empire. After he reached China, his idea of power and leadership shifted from Mongolian to the rule over the Chinese. Because Kublai added a whole new culture into the Mongolian empire, Chinese, the Mongols became less pure ion their own culture and started to deteriorate as they were adapting to a whole new form of living, such as religion, geographic location, and people in their civilization. So because Kublai decided to moe into the Chinese culture, the Mongolian rule deteriorated due to the inability to adapt to a new form of living.
ReplyDeleteI think that the downfall of the Mongolian Empire is due to the fact that it was too large, rather than issues with the Chinese. The Mongols were good at conquering people, but they were not very good at ruling them. It would be impossible for any culture to control such a vast empire, and so it is understandable that it became disorganized and fell apart. Kublai could have done a better job of ruling, but I do not think the decline of the Empire is his fault.
ReplyDeleteKublai Khan was more of a cultural of governing person who concentrated on that but the empire formed by the mongolians was one of conquest and when Kublai decided to govern instead the thing that they were arguably the best at, they stopped doing and it fell apart until there was nothing left of the mongol empire.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with Carson. Kublai's idea of merging with his subjects' culture upset both the Mongol officials and the Chinese. The Mongol officials believed that Kublai was being too friendly towards the chinese, leading to disputes and eventually a law saying that there cannot be any chinese officials. The combination of Kublai's flexible ruling with the officials' rigid racism led to the corruption and eventual collapse of China's governing body.
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