hIstorical paper

The Cultural Exchange During the Mongol Empire

The diffused culture of Mongol Empire whose vast territory in both Asia and Europe plate

creates stable routes for the development of both the tangible and intangible exchange across the

Asian and European plate under the turbulence in medieval time. In other words, although Mogol

Empire originated in warfare, it became an era of tangible and intangible cultural exchange. It is

indispensable to study this process of exchange as the enlightener of studying the lengthy

procedure of the Asian evolution.

• The connection between this paper and the course theme could be the similarity in discussing

the trans-regional exchange towards culture and other materials.

Potential sources

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Stewart Gordon, When Asia was the World (Philadelphia: Da Capo Books, 2008), Chapter Six: Nobles and Notables: Ibn Battuta, 1325-1356 CE, 97-116.

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