In what ways did the Mongols manage their empire across Eurasia in Russia? How did they incorporate regional customs and ideas into their systems of government and control? How did the region influence Mongol traditions?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Mongol management of Russia
1. Mongol leaders were known as the Golden Horde
a. exercised a form of overlordship over Russia
b. practiced a kind of imperialism different from those in China
and Persia
c. left the Christian Russian principalities and city-states to run
their own affairs
d. rulers had to receive charters from the khan's court
1. had to make regular appearances, loaded with tribute
and subject to ritual humiliations
e. population had to pay taxes directly to Mongol-appointed tax
gatherers
1. Mongols assigned the tax gathering to native Russian
princes and civic authorities
2. Mongols intimidated the Russians by terror
a. invaders came to exploit rather than to destroy
b. spared Russia's peasants to ensure that farming would continue
c. cities escaped lightly by capitulating at once
3. Russian princes were even more fearful of enemies to the west
a. Russian coalitions fought off invaders on the western front, but
they could not sustain war on two fronts
b. experience made them submissive to the Mongols
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