Mongol+Religious

Mongol Religion Samuel Carlson


 * Mongols practiced a animistic Religion
 * Gengis Khan practiced a religion that was Shamanistic (Focused on nature Spirits)


 * In Gengis Khan’s Empire there was a freedom of religion
 * In his Bureaucracy there was a intimate framework of Chinese and Muslim scholars
 * Many Scholars were taken back to his tent capital at Karakorum, many were Muslim from Abbasid Empire
 * Word of the Mongol conquest reached Europe
 * Many Christians thought this was the work of *Prester John
 * *Prester John was a Mythological Christian Monarch whose city was cut off from the Muslim conquest during 7th and 8th century
 * Prester John was said to attack the Muslim Enemy from and join up with Christians in Europe to rid of the Muslims
 * The attacks on Kharazm appeared to be Prester John when it was really the Mongols


 * Hulegu’s Destroys Baghdad in 1258
 * The murder of the Abbasid Caliph
 * Opened up Asia Minor (present day turkey)
 * Which led to conquest for the ottoman Turks
 * The coming of the Mongols “one of the great catastrophes in the history of Islam”
 * Taking down the Focus points of Islamic Civilization
 * In the Yuan Empire Confucian and Scholar Gentry wanted to result back to the days of old china, when they were in charge.
 * Muslim doctors ran the hospitals and had over 36 volumes of Muslim Medicine
 * During fall of the Yuan
 * Religious sects such as the White Lotus Society
 * These sects were dedicated to overthrowing the dynasty
 * Leaders of these sects said they had magical powers which could heal their followers
 * Wanted their enemies to conform with them to overthrow empire