Trial Information
| mongol_trial_guidelines.docx |
| trial_advice.doc |
| mock_trial_samples-good_bad_ugly.pdf |
General Mongol Resources
| judging_the_mongols.pdf |
| timeline_of_mongol_empire.pdf |
Defense
Genghis Khan
| what_was_chinggis_great_like.pdf |
| genghis_khan.pdf |
Kublai Khan
| kublai_khan.pdf |
| could_an_empire_be_ruled_from_horseback.pdf |
Marco Polo
| paper_money.pdf |
Mongol Government
| organization_of_the_mongol_empire_under_genghis_khan.pdf |
| yassa_law_code.pdf |
Mongol Woman
| woman_in_mongolia.pdf |
| mongol_woman.pdf |
Ivan I of Moscow
| the_rise_of_moscow.pdf |
Merchant
According to the Muslim chronicler Ghazi: Under the reign of Chinggis Khan, all the countries . . . enjoyed such peace that a man might have journeyed from the land of the sunrise to the land of sunset with a golden platter upon his head without suffering the least violence from anyone (Qtd. in Martin 6)
| trade.pdf |
Prosecution
Pope Innocent IV
| papal_and_mongol_letters.pdf |
| pope_iv.pdf |
A Prisoner of War
| encounters_among_enemies.pdf |
| efficient_war_machine.pdf |
| terror.pdf |
Resident of Kiev
Chinese Peasant
China reportedly suffered a drastic decline in population during the 13th and 14th centuries. Before the Mongol invasion, Chinese dynasties reportedly had approximately 120 million inhabitants; after the conquest was completed in 1279, the 1300 census reported roughly 60 million people. While it is tempting to attribute this major decline solely to Mongol ferocity, scholars today have mixed sentiments regarding this subject. The South Chinese might likely account for some 40 million unregistered who, without passports, would not have appeared in the census. Entire peasant populations joining or enlisted for labour can result in a large population reduction due to food shortage problems. Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than a de facto decrease whilst others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace causing many to disappear from the census altogether. Other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague, spread by the Mongols, was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period. The plague also spread into areas of Western Europe and Africa that the Mongols never reached, most likely carried by individuals fleeing invasion. The Mongols practised biological warfare by catapulting diseased cadavers into the cities they besieged. It is believed that fleas remaining on the bodies of the cadavers may have acted as vectors to spread the bubonic plague.
| brilliant_recovery.pdf |
Al-Musta'sim, Caliph of Baghdad
According to the Persian historian Juvaini: In the Muslim countries devastated by Chinggis Khan, not one in a thousand of the inhabitants survived (Qtd. in Nicolle 46).
| biography_al-musta.pdf |
Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu Sultan of Khwarezmian
According to the Persian historian Juvaini: In the Muslim countries devastated by Chinggis Khan, not one in a thousand of the inhabitants survived (Qtd. in Nicolle 46).
| biography_jalal.pdf |
| conquest_of_samarqand.pdf |