Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2017

gjy664 – Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire

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Date

The exact year of writing is unknown, however it was written in the 1240s.

Author

Ystoria Mongalorum is a compilation of manuscripts by John of Plano Carpini for Pope Innocent IV, of his trips to the Mongol Empire.

Translation Used

This essay uses sections of his reports published in the book The Mission to Asia: narratives and letters of the Franciscan missionaries in Mongolia and China in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Additional Notes

Ystoria Mongalorum is the oldest European account of the Mongols.

Appendix 2 – Mongol Poem

We shall make the people rejoice,

causing them to rest

Their feet upon the ground,

Their hands upon the earth. from The Secret History of the Mongols (14 th Cent)