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Medicine,
Mathematics,
Astronomy
Cartography,
Social sciences,
art, music, literature
Influence of the Mongols:
How did they unite the Eurasian landmass?
What did they bring West from China?
Where did these new ways of thinking come
from?
Mongol influence on the Silk Road
• From 1204 to 1368, the
Mongol Empire united
most of the Eurasian land
mass-revived silk road
trade zone– and brought
many Chinese inventions
to the Middle East and
the Byzantine empire and
eventually Europe -
compass, stirrups,
printing press, paper,
gunpowder, rudder
The Influence of the Byzantine Empire: