https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/a/activity-opener-expanding-an-empire-part-1 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Expanding an Empire—Part 1 The Mongols built a massive empire across Eurasia. What do you think explains their success? Rank the factors based on importance. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/a/article-written-in-the-stars-secrets-of-the-mongol-empire 2025-08-12T03:52:41.296842565Z Written in the Stars: Secrets of the Mongol Empire The Mongol Empire launched invasions that established their territory from Korea to Hungary. How did they manage to conquer and then rule such a vast empire? article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/a/graphic-biography-sorqoqtani-beki 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Sorqoqtani Beki Graphic Bio Sorqoqtani Beki was one of many royal women whose actions and relationships shaped the Mongol empire, providing unity and later causing its division. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/a/activity-quick-sourcing-activity 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Quick-Sourcing—The Mongols Use the Quick-Sourcing Tool to analyze short excerpts about the Mongol Empire. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/a/graphic-biography-rashid-al-din 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Rashid al-Din Graphic Bio Rashid al-Din was a Muslim intellectual whose history of the world showed the diversity of the peoples and ideas mixing in the Mongol Ilkhanate. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/v/genghis-khan-and-the-mongol-empire 2020-06-23T07:22:40Z Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire An overview of how the Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan in 1206, eventually becomes the largest contiguous empire in world history before splitting formally into the Yuan Dynasty, Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate and Ilkhanate. video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/ZCdwTudJg6e6n-P2gsaUborP4izvMsGo71pvEVlX9dNYWcLXcP7VHkWpn2grt4TUP1KoJLQP9NswyHBuBLSFTBw Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire An overview of how the Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan in 1206, eventually becomes the largest contiguous empire in world history before splitting formally into the Yuan Dynasty, Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate and Ilkhanate. https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/PiIJFRqrQYk.mp4/PiIJFRqrQYk.mp4 282 The Mongol Empire | 6.2 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/v/why-were-the-mongols-so-effective-world-history-khan-academy 2022-10-11T01:58:02.027441565Z Why were the Mongols so effective? Owing to their adaptability, their skill in communications, and their reputation for ferocity, the Mongols swept across Eurasia over the 13th and 14th centuries, quickly assembling the largest contiguous empire in world history. These non-state actors had to quickly learn how to become a state themselves. video https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka_thumbnails_cache/fb5f11d7-9baa-4efd-a6f4-7a0d043f0c88_1280_720_base.png Why were the Mongols so effective? Owing to their adaptability, their skill in communications, and their reputation for ferocity, the Mongols swept across Eurasia over the 13th and 14th centuries, quickly assembling the largest contiguous empire in world history. These non-state actors had to quickly learn how to become a state themselves. https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/n-7xGKl2HX4.mp4/n-7xGKl2HX4.mp4 435 The Mongol Empire | 6.2 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/a/activity-closer-expanding-an-empire-part-2 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Expanding an Empire—Part 2 How would you run history's largest land-based empire? Were your ideas at the beginning of this lesson correct? Apply what you've learned and rerank the factors of imperial expansion. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:the-first-global-age/x66f79d8a:the-mongol-empire-6-2/e/2-1-the-mongol-empire 2025-12-29T16:30:28.693751207Z The Silk Roads and the Mongol Empire Practice your ability to contextualize and assess change in the rebuilding of the Silk Roads and the expansion of the Mongol Empire! Ben Chleboun exercise