This blog will answer two questions:
1. In what ways did pastoral societies differ from their agricultural counterparts?
Pastoral societies as a whole were more often than not less productive economies. They didn't have the need to support large populations like agricultural societies which brings us to another difference, that the people lived in small encampments. These encampments were organized not by villages or towns but rather by kinship and in clans. Pastoral societies were also known to give women a higher status. Women were involved in the agricultural labor and had many domestic responsibilities, they were also given the right to remarry and file for a divorce without social out-casting. Finally the mobility of the pastoral societies was much greater than those of the agricultural societies. When the pastoral societies would be on the move they had a purpose and would bring their elaborate tent homes with them.
2. How did Chinggis Khan become so notorious so quickly?
His personal magnetism and courage allowed him to rise more quickly then most. Khan also relied on good friends and used traits such as loyalty rather than preference of kinship to gain friends and followers. He became chief shortly after winning a military battle and many people responded as followers. The more mobile he was the greater leader he became, eventually spreading his reign over The Great Mongol Nation which was now unified. Finally his expansion into China, Korea, Central Asia, Russia, Islamic Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe became a reality where people from all religions and backgrounds worshiped him.
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