What were the main characteristics of Mongol society before the rise of Temujin to power?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Characteristics of Mongol society before Temujin
1. emerged onto the steppes of the Central Asian land now called
Mongolia
2. were hunters and small-scale pig breeders before they adapted to life
on the steppes with a pastoral way of life
a. became horse-borne nomads and shepherds
3. were made up of many different communities, with various religions
and competing leaderships
4. they spoke languages of common origins that were different from those
of the Turks
5. early twelfth century, the bands or alliances they formed got bigger,
and their raids against neighboring sedentary peoples became more
menacing
a. effect of the growing preponderance of some Mongol groups
over others and the result of slow economic change
6. Contact with richer neighbors gave Mongol chiefs opportunities for
enrichment as mercenaries or raiders
a. blood relationships and seniority in age had formerly settled every
person's position but rising economic inequalities began to trump
these cultural norms
b. prowess in war enabled leaders to build up bands of followers of
their own in parallel with—and sometimes in defiance of—the old
social order
c. most successful leaders enticed or forced rival groups into
submission
d. process spread to involve peoples who were not strictly
Mongols
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