Mongolia lie in the North of China in east Central Asia. Mongolia is a rugged country covered mostly by plateaus and towering mountain range. Traditionally the mongols were nomadic herder who traveled from place to place with there animals. Mongolia is the home of Asian people called the mongols.
The government of Mongolia was eventually consolidated in a legal code commonly known as Yasa. The mongols had always followed laws and new laws that was designed to help the mongols rule their empire. There laws against lying, spying, and interfering in other peoples quarrels. There were laws requiring that all religion will be treated with equal respect. That was the government of the Mongols.
The Mongols original religion was shamanism a kind of nature worship. The mongols believed that the sky, the sun and the moon, great lakes, rivers and high mountains were all inherited by spirits was Tengri or Eternal blue heaven who lived in the sky. The mongols worship the spirits with music, masked dancers, and animal sacrifices. The mongols would either add a rock to the pile as an offering and clockwise around it or would tie a strip of cloth to a tree branch. The mongols learned about different religions of those religions Lamaism which became increasingly important to the mongols. This is a form of Buddhism that developed in Tibet. Lamaism teaches the Buddhism belief that meditation and good deeds combined with the help various saints, free person from the need to be reborn over and over into a world of suffering. Lamaism also emphazies the study of religions texts and the use of paintings and statues to show the souls of struggle.
During the mongolian Empire there were two different foods, whites foods, and red foods. White foods were usually dairy products like milk. They rarely drank milk but used it to create other foods like cheese and yoghurt. The main dairy product that the mongols lived on during the summer was koumiss or fermented milk which is still widely drunk today. Milk was the main source during the summer. The mongols main meat foods were mutton and lamb. Meat was the main source during the winter.
Mongolians being nomadic people they emphasized portable arts. These included oral literature, music, and dance. Poetry was an important part of oral literature. The mongols were also extremely fond of folk tales. The folktales dealt with topics ranging from romance to the supernatural. The oldest mongolian musical instrument was the wooden morin khur, or horse fiddle because it so called had a horse carved at the top of the instrument. It had leather sounding board and two strings that were played with a wood and horse hair bow. The mongols loved to sing. They sang herding songs to call back animals that had strayed from the herds. They sang work songs while at pitching camp. They sang in praise of famous horses or beautiful spots in the mongolian lanfscape. A distintive form mongolians sang was called hoomi or knoomei which means harmonic or split tone sings but only performed by men. Mongolian dance was of two kinds. Groups dancers performed outdoorsby groups men and women and couples. Indivduals dancers who performed inside were by women.
The mongols technology was the bow known as the worlds most effective bow. When the mongols family attacked an enemy they did so with an array of low tech but effective weapons. Each mongols warrior carried a sword or battle-ax and a lance. A lance was a spear a horseman used to stop at an opponent. It was made of numerous materials that were combined in an innovative way. And this made it the closet thing technological device the mongols processed. The english long bow, a very effective weapon in its could sheet an arrow up to 750ft (228)m. By comparison a mongol bow could sheet up to 1050ft (320).
IN 1208 Chinggis Khan defeated the the Naiman and captured their Uyghur scribe Tatar- Tonga who apparently adapted the old Uyghur alphabet to write mongolian. The alphabet created by Tatar- Tonga is now known as the Uighur/Uyghur script the classical mongol, the old script, or mongol biching in mongolian. Between the 13th and 15th centuries, mongolian was also written with chinese characters the arabic alphabet and a script derived from tibetan called phagspa. Mongolian adapted the latin alphabet in 1931 and the cyrillic alphabet in 1937. In 1941 the mongolian government passed a law to abolish the classical mongol script but since 1994 they have been trying to bring it back. It if now taught to some extent in schools though is mainly used for decorative purposes by artist, designers, calligraphers and poets.
Mongolia is very different from the United States like foods, art, technology, probably social structure, government, religion. They rode animals we ride cars, buses, ect. Sorry i didnt have social structure i couldnt find anything.
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