Comparative Questions?

  1. What do the documents in this chapter reveal about the values that the Mongols prized? Were the values they held as nomads different from the values they held as rulers?
  2. Characterize Mongol rule over Central and East Asia. How effective was Mongol rule?
  3. How do the duties of a wife in the Kamasutra (Document 12-4) compare to Ban Zhao’s ideas about the duties of a Chinese wife (Document 7-2)?

William Theodore de Bary et al., eds., Sources of Indian Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), 407–410.