Mongol+Agriculture+and+the+Economy

=__Agriculture__=
 * normally what Mongols ate was controlled by where they were (being nomadic) [[|Ebsco]]
 * did not grow any form of crops [[|Ebsco]]
 * for the mongols there was two kinds of food: red and white [[|Ebsco]]
 * red = animals like sheep and goats; white = dairy products like milk and cheese [[|Ebsco]]
 * white food was for summer and red was for winter [[|Ebsco]]
 * usually meat was cut up and eaten on skewers [[|Ebsco]]
 * the food of the countries they conquered became part of their diet [[|Wikipedia]]

=__Economy__= Back to Andrew's Research Page
 * at first their economy was based on sheep and horses [[|History Channel]] [[image:mongolian-horses.jpg width="422" height="238" align="right" caption="Horses were one the most important parts of the Mongol lifestyle."]]
 * the two main jobs were herders and hunters [[|History Channel]]
 * to get things like grain, textiles and metals they had to trade animals [[|History Channel]]
 * once Genghis Kahn led the Mongols and they started to conquer countries their economy changed [[|History Channel]]
 * the Mongols were given tribute from conquered territories
 * this became a system of taxation [[|Ebsco]]
 * if the conquered cities failed to pay up the Mongols would return and enforce the tribute [[|Ebsco]]
 * paper money was introduced by Genghis Kahn just before his death [[|Wikipedia]]
 * it was backed by silk and precious metals [[|Wikipedia]]
 * the Mongol's also used Chinese silve ignots as a form of currency [[|Wikipedia]]
 * a department was created to regulate currency of the empire in 1252 by Ogedei Kahn [[|Wikipedia]]