The Mongols Lesson 23 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 On the wide grasslands of Asia, called the steppe, the Mongols lived as nomads in round felt tents called gers, herding horses, sheep and goats, and children learned to ride at three or four. 1 In 1206 a leader named Temujin united the Mongol tribes and took the title Genghis Khan; he and his sons and grandsons built the largest land empire in history. 2 Their armies were fast because every rider brought several horses and swapped to a fresh one when the first got tired, like a relay team that never stops running. 3 The conquests were terrible for the cities that resisted, and in 1240 the Mongols destroyed Kyiv, but once the fighting was over traders could cross Asia more safely than ever before. 4 Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan became emperor of China, and a Venetian merchant called Marco Polo wrote a book about his court that amazed Europe. 6 Temujin united the Mongol tribes and in 1206 was named Genghis Khan, meaning universal ruler. 7 Mongol armies moved very fast because each rider had several horses, and they used tricks such as pretending to retreat to lure enemies into traps. 8 The Mongols used Chinese and Persian engineers to besiege walled cities, and cities that resisted were often destroyed and many people died. 10 In 1240 the Mongols destroyed Kyiv, and the lands of Rus paid them tribute, money and goods handed over every year, for about two hundred years. 11 After the conquests the Mongol lands were peaceful enough for traders to travel safely across Asia; historians call this the Mongol peace, or Pax Mongolica. 12 The Mongols had relay stations with fresh horses so that messengers could ride hundreds of kilometres a day, showing a metal pass called a paiza. 13 Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan conquered China and founded the Yuan dynasty, with his capital where Beijing is now. 14 Kublai Khan's fleets twice tried to invade Japan, in 1274 and 1281, and both attempts failed, partly because of storms. 15 Marco Polo, a merchant from Venice, said he served Kublai Khan, and his book told Europeans about paper money, coal and huge cities; some historians doubt parts of his story, but much of what he described was accurate. 16 The Mongols let people of many religions worship freely, including Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, which helped them rule many different peoples. ← previous The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval worldnext → The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages↑ back to History This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/