...EXERCISE #2 Doing Business with Mongolia Pulvera, Michael V. ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT Over the past 20 years, Mongolia has transformed into a vibrant multiparty democracy with a booming economy. Mongolia is at the threshold of a major transformation driven by the exploitation of its vast mineral resources and the share of mining in GDP today stands at 20 percent, twice the ratio of a decade ago. The Mongolian economy is facing challenges from persistent economic imbalances. Economic growth slowed to 3.0 percent in the first half of 2015 amid declining exports from a continued weakening of the commodity market and slower growth in the key export market of China. Mongolia’s annual GDP growth is expected to slow to 2.3 percent for all of 2015. Poverty has been on a downward trend over the past decade. Most recently, Mongolia’s poverty rate declined from 27.4 percent in 2012 to 21.6 percent in 2014, although many remain near the poverty line. Substantial progress has also been made in regard to several Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the national level, though significant regional disparities prevail. To ensure sustainable and inclusive growth, Mongolia will need to strengthen institutional capacity to manage public revenues efficiently and limit the effects of Dutch Disease; allocate its resources effectively among spending, investing, and saving; reduce poverty; and offer equal opportunities to all its citizens in urban and rural areas. It needs to do this...
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...analysis, and written plans for successful furtherance of Company A’s global marketing plan. Your manager at Company A has asked you to submit a detailed marketing approach that the manager will present to the operating committee. Your approach should address any major cross-cultural challenges that may likely surface as Company A expands into an Eastern Asian market. A. Identify one country in Eastern Asia a. After researching a number of East Asia countries Company A has decided that Mongolia will be the best choice for expansion B. Identify major cross-cultural issues that may impact Company A’s marketing approach in this situation: b. Spoken Language Barriers i. The official language of Mongolia is Mongolian and is spoken by 95% of the native population. 1. Company A will have to...
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...Music Of Mongolia The music of Mongolia should not only be listened, but also to be studied for it has a unique history of discovering and creating their music. The purpose of this research is to be aware of how Mongolians use their music and what is it symbolizing. Most of the traditional music was use in haunting but somehow, it symbolizes a special matter for communication and spiritualization. It is also been used as a medicine for animals especially in horse. However, love is also a popular theme of Mongolian music. It lasted a long time and loved by the Mongolians. Despite the wars and battles of the Mongolians, what is the history of their music? Is it influenced by the conquerors that surmount them or their tradition stay still? Mongolian music is an integral for Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. These had been used in haunting and communicating with their gods. Music is embedded in the nomadic lifestyle of Mongolia. Various form of Mongolian music is a wide collection. The lyrics of the song refer to the natural landscape and the beauty of their land. Their song is often sung to animals when they are travelling throughout the country side in the horseback and while herding animals. Traditional songs of Mongolian focus on all the subjects that are important in their nomad life such as horse, which is their noble animal. Their music is characterized by throat singing, epic songs, traditional short folk songs and traditional long songs. Epic song is about the stories of the...
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...Allsen’s book “Mongol Cuisine”. The first page was about the office of ba’urchi, which translated as “cook” in the Mongolian. Staring at the strange letters that consisted the exotic, weird word-ba’urchi, I envisaged a bustle image of the cooks, wearing gowns that cut out from wolf skins, prepare food with horseflesh, mutton and cheese. I was also amazed by how they respect food, in distinctive and extreme ways, nothing like other cultures. The mutton is preserved by drying, freezing, jerking, and smoking. When they kill an animal by making an incision in the chest, they “squeezing the heart” and thereby “retaining the blood in the carcass for later use”. I definitely saw myself there also, standing right next to yurts on the grassland, watched local people making fire and rounding up the sheep or cattle, preserving food in a persistent and faithful way. But, I, strived to put myself inside the picture to understand why, still failed to get close. Eye ache, cervical bitter, I closed the book filled with disappointment and pushed it away. Lay inside the blanket with the mild moonlight through the window and curtain, I, felt so unsure. The annoying uncertainty disturbed me like a far deeper itch I could never scratch. I witnessed the display of the nomadic culture at food and hunt. I read every detail of the various activities of people who live in Mongolian plains age after age. The vague feeling about Mongol culture sprang in my heart, but was stuck inside my chest. It...
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...Secondly as the khan empire is split amongst chinggis Khan grandsons and that created a rivalry within the parts that had adopted Muslim within the sections that were being ruled by his grandsons . in short a rivalry between the Buddhist Mongols and the Islamic Mongols began to cause a rift between the two .thus Islam became the point of inter-Mongol when one of the mongol leaders declared himself a muslim.although the Mongols had problems controlling their territories near modern day Russia and Iran the people there still made historical achievements in writing,literature,art mathematics,and astronomy.thirdly Mongol conquest affected Russia ,eastern Europe and parts of western Eurasia and once Mongolian rule had began to weakened within the region. The people began to slowly change themselves by putting back the pieces of tradition that they had once had before the time of Mongolian...
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...Mongolians start voting at the age of 18 with the voting process a direct, free election. A new constitution was adopted in January 1992 that made some changes in the government, one being the legislative power of Mongolia. The Great Hural, which consists of 76 members, is the legislative power, with the delegates being elected every four years like the head of state's term. The head of state is the president, who is elected to a four-year run in office. state power The People's Great Hural, with it's 430 members, had the of Mongolia and usually met two times each year. Until 1990, the only legal political party in Mongolia was the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), which was a Communist Party. Things changed when an amendment to the constitution allowed for oppositional political parties. Another part of the amendment allowed for a government run by a president and the institution of the Small Hural, which had 53 members. Compulsory education is available from ages 8 to 16, with almost 90% of the primary school age children attending in 1996. The attendance rate for secondary school was much lower at a little over 50% of the population attending. Institutions of higher learning had almost 40,000 attendees. The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAAN they established a huge Eurasian empire through conquest. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols...
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...Franklin sits on a large chair. One of the first things noticed by the children as well as myself was the intricate decorations not only in the large atrium but also on the outside of the building before even entering the museum. I was at first very intimated and one of the children in my group upon entering the museum realized his water in his bag had spilled everywhere creating a large puddle that was now spilling onto the floor of the museum. The Franklin Institute is filled with several amazing interactive displays including the giant heart, your brain, and changing earth to name a few of our favorites. I personally had my eyes set on the third floor which housed the Genghis Khan display with over 200 artifacts from the 1300 century Mongolian empire. It is difficult to choose just two pieces because it was a very large and inspiring collection, most of which was only being displayed for the first time. The first piece which really caught our attention was the huge twelve foot cross bow which was used to conquer walled cities. This type of innovation in...
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...It is 1218, I have been growing up the with the mindset to have no fear, but war and violence in my nomadic empire. Overlooking my camp, I begin to think about how I have spent fifteen years preparing myself to become one of the warriors of an army known to be contained of fearsome fighters in Central Asia. Ever since I was young enough to remember, I have been training with horses by hunting and herding them. Now that I am of age to be a part of the military life, I was given four horses to alternate with, so each one can have a chance to rest and prepare to fight. Being a Mongolian warrior, I have attended meetings to practice different war tactics, this will make our empire more advanced in capturing any city or army that walks into our tracks. My clothing is made to handle any climate change, ropes, and lamellar armor which are light as a feather, but heavy enough to reduce breaking when going to our targeted destination. The armor has rectangular plates made from iron and leather that was imported from Sub-Sahara Africa. When I am not wearing my lamellar armor, I wear my form fitting rope, called a del. For...
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...will lead to a better military structure. Compare and contrast the organization of the Arabian tribes with that of the Turko-mongolian tribes of inner asia? The Arabian and turk0- monoglian had some similarities but they also had many differences I will first start with their similarities. Both the Arabian tribes and turko-mongolian consisted of nomadic people, they were a stateless society, with no formal government. Now let me talk about their differences the Arabian tribes were endxomous meaning they were intermarried this made the tribe very cohesive and insulated. Through this intermarriage created their social stricter which was called egalitarian meaning there was little difference among people no matter rich or poor everyone was on the same level. This made it very difficult to have a ranking system in the military. The Turko-Monoglian tribes were exgoumous meaning they married outside of the family this was very important especially with building political alliances. There social structure was hierarchical which made a ranking system in the army very important. How did this difference affect the patter of state formation in pre modern middle east-? These difference affect the pattern of state formation in the pre modern middle east because of having a hieracalce social structure it made it much more easy to create a state or even an empire because of the inside and outside power, along with rankings in the military systems the tribe transformed its self into different...
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...The textbook also stated that the Mongols were very tolerant of the people they conquered belief systems, and allowed them to practice any religion they wanted to practice, even assimilating it into their own culture. The text also mentions the safe travel of ideas such as religion through the Mongol empire as a person could safely travel from the Middle East to China without getting robbed or captured. Document 9 states that the Mongols believed that there was on god and that other religions were just different ways to worship the same entity or being. Document 10 states something that could be considered intolerant and therefore barbaric which is that the Mongols allowed for a person to have as many wives as they can, meaning multiple wives which could be considered going against any religion that believes a man could only have one...
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...The Mongols have affected the world in positive ways and negative ways. They started out as many nomadic tribes uniting into a civilized empire. They were justified to be civilized by the people they affected. The Mongols gained social, cultural, and moral development from Chinggis Khan, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, mongol generals, mongolian women, chinese peasants, merchants, and Buddhist monks. Under the leader of Chinggis Khan, the mongols became as one to a disciplined military state through the the making of laws. Their military was highly developed with loyalty, discipline, horses and weapons to conquer and expand their land. The military was divided into units of groups of soldier who each maintained an amount of horses. The units’ generals...
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...Around 1205 CE, Chinggis Qahan and the Mongols defeated the Naimans and the Merkits, who were part of the Mongolian empire. Qahan conquered his very own people because they called for his execution. Jamuga, a Naiman survivor and brother to Qahan, became a robber after the conquest of his people and climbed the Tanglu Mountains with five companions. His companions then turned on him and took him to Chinggis Qahan. The exchange between Jamuga and Quahan was recorded by an anonymous author and was written in The Secret History of the Mongols, which is the oldest surviving Mongolian text. The Secret History of the Mongols gives insight into the relationship between Jamuga and his brother, Quahan. In the beginning of the text, Jamuga...
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...GENGHIS KHAN The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. Genghis Khan, who lived probably between 1162–1227, born Temüjin, was the founder, Khan (ruler) and Khagan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He was born in a Mongol tribe near Burkhan Khaldun mountain and the Onon and Kherlen Rivers in modern-day Mongolia, not far from the current capital Ulaanbaatar. The Secret History of the Mongols reports that Temüjin was born with a blood clot grasped in his fist, a traditional sign indicating that he was destined to become a great leader. He was the third-oldest son of his father Yesükhei, a minor tribal chief of the Kiyad and an ally of Ong Khan of the Kerait tribe and the oldest son of his mother Hoelun. He was called Temüjin because, in the Mongol culture, children were named after the leader of the last tribe to be defeated by the child’s father Childhood was short and difficult for the Mongols, and Temüjin learned how to ride horses when he was three, and hunt and fish before he turned six years old. The Mongols also had very...
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...the world’s largest empire. He conquered vast territories across the continents of Asia and Europe. He was born in central Mongolia into a noble military family in 1162. His father was Yesugei, a chieftain of the Borjigin tribe. His mother Hoelun was from the Olkhunut tribe. He was her first son and the third for his father. (Ratchnevsky 1) The hardships of Khan’s childhood and the influences of many people shaped his later life and shaped him to be a brilliant emperor. His father was a very courageous man that valued tradition because when Khan was nine years old, his father took him to live with the family of his future bride Borte, who was part of the Onggirat tribe. Borte’s father,...
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...as Varangians, invaded the area around Kiev and the Kievan Rus rose to become a power in Eastern Europe, because it controlled the trade route from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The state developed a political system which the state used until its decline in the thirteenth century. The state also developed a unique society during its existence. The Yuan dynasty was the dynasty in China to arise after the fall of the Song Dynasty. The Yuan dynasty was founded after the defeat of the Northern and Southern Song dynasty from the Mongols, by the Mongols. Kublai Khan became the ruler of this dynasty, which only lasted for about 100 years. The dynasty, because it was not ruled by the Chinese, was governed differently from older dynasties. The empire also developed a unique blend of cultures. While both the Kievan Rus and the Yuan Dynasty were similar politically and socially, they were also unique from each other in political and social terms. (Curtis, Art 12, 13, 14) The Kievan Rus and the Yuan Dynasty both existed during a time when monarchs ruled the land. Both the Kievan Rus and the Yuan Dynasty had monarchs which ruled. The Kievan Rus and the Yuan dynasty also had governments in the form of a bureaucracy. The Kievan Rus had a monarchy known as the Grand Prince. The Grand Prince ruled the entire state and had control over the other princes in the bureaucracy. However, the Grand Prince lived a leisurely life and let the...
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