What happened during the Cultural Revoltion? Who were the Mongols? What were they famous for?

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China Questions on history

Answer 1

The Cultural Revolution was a dreadful time in Chinese history. Mao (or his wife) used the young people to terrorise large chunks of the populace.

The Mongols were a bunch of nomadic horsefolk who, under Genghis Khan, assembled the greatest empire ever. They invaded China and became the Yuan dynasty.

Answer 2

The Cultural Revolution was an ironically named period in China's history when because of Mao's shortsighted and wrongheaded policies, the Red Guard (youth who were indoctrinated with Maoist thought) became a rampaging body of anti-cultural stormtroopers bent on destroying a lot of China's cultural heritage. They burned books, persecuted scholars and scientists, smashed works of art and destroyed anything that was perceived as being disloyal to Mao and the state. Thus, the CR is also sometimes referred to as The Great Leap Backward. Some scholars conservatively estimate that the CR threw China's development back at least ten years. In many ways, China's current rush and need to catch up with the modern world is due to the setbacks of the CR.

The Mongols were legendary horsemen and archers. They conquered and instilled fear in their enemies using what was then revolutionary fast cavalry attacks.

The Mongols were also nomads. They were a restless, mobile people. Hence, their great reliance on and skill with the horse. Despite the vast lands that the Khans conquered in their campaigns, Genghis Khan was once quoted as saying that he found it relatively easy to conquer a territory but much harder to govern and settle it.

Answer 3

The Cultural Revolution started in 1966 but never ended until Mao's death. It was a disaster as it displaced people away from their homes and wrecked Chinese society. This is where Mao turned his attention away from the peasants and focused on university students as his target group. Check out the wikipedia.

The Mongols were a separate ethnic group from the majority Han race. They are notably known for having established the Yuan dynasty.

Answer 4

1966 - 1976 An upsurge was headed by Mao with students & workers against Communist govt. bureaucrats lto secure Maoism (known domestically as Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought) in China as the state's dominant ideology. Under the Red Guards millions of people were condemned to death, & million more injured & imprisoned. The economic aftermath & Mao's crazy policies ensured millions (some say 77 million) more starved to death.

The Mongols (from Mongolia) conquered most of asia & part of europe seven hundred years earlier. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan, the Mongols conquered two thirds of the dry land of the globe and created the second largest empire in world history, ruling 35 million km² (13.8 million miles²) and more than 100 million people, nearly equal to the British Empire in land area.

Answer 5

The Cultural revolution had nothing to do with the Mongols??? Your talking about things that happened a thousand years apart.