oh god oh god oh god oh god

I just finished all of my AP exams with World, and it was by far the
worst (i.e. most stressful). I submitted my work, but it feels a bit
inadequate and my heart is racing. Well, at least I'm done :|

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+Cultural!! @ Conquered peoples
+
+Doc 1:
+    Sympathetic view (world conqueror)
+    Under the dynasty control
+    Fairness = crime (hammurabi)
+    Writing @ Uighurs.
+    Mongols created bureaucracy, but weren't great at it
+    They borrowed other cultures and eventually fell
+    Uighur = conquered people, Mongol children were typically warriors
+    Persian
+
+Doc 2:
+    Close to the dynasty too
+    Tibetan Buddhism/Yuan = China, but pushing a specific cultural view
+    Worldly welfare = Mongols
+    Trying to separate mongol activity from religion because they are
+        typically very tolerant
+    "order"
+    Peace from the khan (silk road considered safest)
+    Khublai Khan willing to make changes for religion
+    Because local religious leaders support
+    The Mongols changed their own culture to allow them to gain more
+        control in conquered regions
+
+Doc 3:
+    Arab, historian *about* religious leader
+    Likely a bit more neutral than from a religious leader directly but
+        still some bias
+    Mongols -> muslim
+    In conquered regions, mongols sort of fit into the existing bureau-
+    cracy
+
+Doc 4:
+    Historian close to the Mnogols, so universal history close to Khans
+    Christian!
+    Doquz Khatun is Nestorian
+    religion is a really big thing here (divide by that??)
+
+Doc 5:
+    Female companions = locals, help integrate the khans with the local
+        people and prevent revolt.
+    Tapestry used by Buddhists
+    Because the Mongols integrated religion into their local rules,
+        religious leaders supported the Mongols in return
+    Wait this was made *for the court* hmmm.
+
+Historical Context
+Intended Audience
+Purpose
+Point of View
+
+External evidence:
+After Kublai Khan's death, individual Khanates sprung up in the regions
+that the Mongols ruled. They retained the Silk Road's continuity while
+infighting amongst themselves. Needed local support (1).
+
+Mongols helped push technological growth during their rule because most
+governance was left to the locals with greater external connectivity,
+so there was less control
+
+Groups:
+- Religious Tolerance
+- Originally had internal secular rule system
+- Khanates = decentralized
+
+Thesis:
+The khanates, having become decentralized
+
+Groups:
+- Religious leaders try to preserve themselves
+- Mongols try to use religious infrastructure for their own benefit
+    (sometimes against other khans)
+- 
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+Before the Mongols came to control the majority of Asia, the Song
+Dynasty and various religious Arab and Persian rulers were developing
+technological prominence (credit, gunpowder, seafaring) and had control
+over their regions because of prosperous centralized government. The
+Mongols, however, had superior military tactics, and were able to seize
+large parts of these empires. But despite their ability to take over
+these regions, bureaucratic control wasn't well-suited to their culture,
+especially after Kublai Khan's death where a single central controller
+couldn't exist. The khanates instead used local religious infrastructure
+and continued to develop technology within the regions they ruled
+because local rulers (usually religious in nature because states were
+often closely tied to religion, especially in the Islamic world) wanted
+to retain their power and the Mongols were such a small group that they
+could not entirely supplant a bureaucracy even if they wanted to.
+
+Religious leaders tried to preserve their own power as can be seen
+in document 2. A Buddhist monk is pushing the message that the Mongol
+empire should preserve religious organization for rational and
+bureaucratic reasons (order that the people already follow, and arguing
+that it would not interfere with Mongol rule). The intended audience is
+the Khan and the wider Mongol court, so this message is likely pandering
+to their sense of importance and power over China, but the parts about
+the religious organization retaining power are certainly believed by
+this monk. Especially because Khubilai Khan is a Buddhist himself, this
+monk believes that he has a good chance at retaining most of his power
+as long as he remains in the good grace of the Mongols. Document 3 also
+shows the Sufi sheikh (a religious ruler) has worked to convert the
+ruler to his faith. Religious leaders attempting to convert rulers is,
+historically, not uncommon, but the Mongols are particularly pliant to
+these advances because the Mongols do not have an established religion
+because they were originally a nomadic group and so do not have as
+strong of power structures.
+
+The Mongols are also uncommonly tolerant rulers. Because the roots of
+their power lie with Kubilai Khan's enhancement of the Silk Road in his
+early years, preservation of intergroup trade is easiest when the people
+controlling it are mostly neutral to the religion and ethnicity of
+merchants because then more merchants are likely to participate. But,
+after his death, the Khanates although still trying to retain the
+strength of the road began to infight between themselves---which
+eventually befell the empire. So, during these years, alliances with
+local ethnic groups was especially important. In the Yuan dynasty,
+Mongol leaders took ethnic female companions as can be seen in Document
+5. In order to garner support of the local groups, the Yuan dynasty
+used this silk tapestry in religious ceremonies because it represented
+their alliance to the local powers---which was expected to be returned
+in favour. Document 4 shows this same pattern of native religious
+advantage. The Persian Khanate Ilkhanid ruler married to a Nestorian
+Christian because, although she didn't hold specific hierarchical power
+over this land, the alliance with the Nestorian Christians is valuable
+mostly in the preservation of peace.
+
+Technological growth was the earliest way that the Khans were affected
+by local change and culture. Khans brought together scholars and artists
+for their own gain; the development of new technology would further
+their control over the Silk Road and the prosperity of the lands they
+controlled. These technologies were also used directly by the Mongols,
+as is seen in Document 1. At this time, the Mongols were an illiterate
+people interested in developing a bureaucratic system because they
+had conquered much land but had no way to profit from it because no tax
+system was in place. The Mongols needed to reuse an existing writing
+system to further the strength of their empire, which projected into
+cultural changes. The Mongols gradually stopped being a nomadic people
+and their core strength (military dominance) faded out, their being
+closer to these native peoples because the reuse of native culture
+was the easiest way to control an area. But this eventually meant that
+the Mongol empire was essentially the same as the preexisting empire
+because they used the same tax and writing system, were just as divided
+as before, and began to face new challenges which it was difficult
+for the Mongols to handle.