<span>- Produced agriculture where no one had thought possible. - Played roles as traders and bandits on long distance trade routes. - Played roles in the the collapses of the 2nd wave civilizations and their rebuilds. - Supported Buddhism in China - Nomadic Bedouin Arabs aided in expansion of Islam. - Turks carried Islam to new lands. - Mongols made largest empire of the time. - Facilitated closer connections across Eurasia. - Increased the rate of technology & crop exchange, mixing of peoples, spread of epidemic disease. - Mongol tolerance of other religions facilitated spread of religion.</span>
