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Title	Mounted Nomadic Warrior;
Title Alternative	Mongol Warrior;
File Name	civ metadata CID; Civ Archive 010 correct picture; 98300718.jpg
Copyright Status/Owner	Public Domain; Actively Pursuing
Rights (Patron Usage Instructions)	http://www.lib.byu.edu/genericnote_copyright.html
Course	HIST 201
Lecture Number	18
Professor	Wright, David Curtis, 1960-
Description	The steppe produced many nomadic conquerors that conquered and terrorized the settled periphery of Eurasia, but the greatest military leader was Gehghis Khan who united the nomadic tribes of Mongolia from 1206 AD until his death in 1227 AD. This image portrays a mounted nomadic warrior atop his mount at full gallop. He aims to the rear, demonstrating the mobility and firepower that made steppe warriors unequaled on the battlefields of Asia and Europe. Although the military advantages of nomadism was apparent as early as 2000 BC, the invention of stirrups sometime around 500 AD allowed nomads to achieve unparallel shooting ability with a bow and arrow while riding. Accurate shooting on the run became possible for the first time, as a rider could use his legs to absorb the unsteadiness of his galloping mount by standing in the stirrups, as depicted by the rider here. The Mongol army perfected the art of shooting arrows from horseback and in combat every Mongol carried a wooden frame with two bows made out of bone and sinew. One was for short-range work, while the other could fly for almost 1000 feet. Their quivers could hold as many sixty arrows, some armor piercing and some fitted with whistling heads for signaling. Their stirrups would allow him to string his bow in the saddle by putting one end between a foot and a stirrup.
Creator	Unknown Artist
Country	Mongolia
Geographic Region	Asia
Type	Graphic
Platform	Cross-Platform
File Size	390.394 KB
Genre	History
Category	Politics
Keywords	Genghis Khan; Mongolian Warrior; Mounted Warrior ; Nomad; Stirrups; Bow and Arrow; Horse;
Time Period	Indo-European Migrations; Mongolian Empire
Date Range	1200 BC: 1300 AD
Date Original	1200-1300 AD
Date Digital	2005-03-29
Metadata Entry Date	2009-08-11
Quality	High
Contributors	Brigham Young University
Copyright Expiration Date	2005-09-01
Edition	Electronic reproduction;
Format	JPEG
Owning Institution	National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Publisher Digital	Brigham Young University
Source	Time-Life Books, The Mongol Conquests: time frame AD 1200-1300 (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1989), 8; Encyclopædia Britannica, 2006 Online ed., s.v. “Genghis Khan”, available from Internet <http://search.eb.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/eb/article-41204>, accessed 14 August 2006; Encyclopædia Britannica, 2006 Online ed., s.v. “Steppe, the”, available from Internet <http://search.eb.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/eb/article-9108658>, accessed 8 August 2006.
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