In what ways did the Mongols manage their empire across Eurasia in Persia and Russia? How did they incorporate regional customs and ideas into their systems of government and control? How did the region influence Mongol traditions?

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Answer 1

A. Mongol management of Persia
1. Mongol rulers were called Il-khans or "subordinate rulers"
b. were like chameleons, gradually taking on the hues of the
culture they conquered
c. maintained a distinct identity and to preserve their own traditions
d. court tended to stay in the north
1. grazing for the kinds of herds their followers brought
with them from the steppe
e. retained nomadic habits
1. migrating every summer and winter to new camps with
palatial tents
2. southern Iran and Iraq
1. entrusted power to local dynasties
2. secured their loyalty by marriages with the ruling
family or court nobility
3. adopted Islam
1. marked an important departure from the tradition of
religious pluralism
2. state began to take on a militantly religious character
that excluded other groups
3. form of Islam the Il-khans finally adopted was Shiism
4. art
1. religious art of the Il-khanate is strikingly unlike that of
any other Muslim country
2. painters freely painted human figures
5. promoted trans-Eurasian contacts and exchanges of goods, personnel, ideas
1. Persia supplied China with engineers, astronomers, mathematicians
2. Persia received porcelain from China
3. Chinese designs influenced Persian weavers
4. Chinese dragons appeared on the tiles with which
Persian buildings of the time were decorated