Barbaric Empire Dbq

The Mongols showed discipline by listening to their king’s every word and following his every instruction. In Document 2, we were able to read about how the Mongols were organized a certain way by their king and had to face punishment if they were to go against it. The Mongols in every battle had stayed put instead of running away or else they’d be executed. Document 5 shows us an image of some Mongols being faced upside down and are about to have an arrow shot through them. The reason being for this is that they had apparently went against the laws set for them. Setting laws and getting punished for breaking them shows how the Mongols were forced to stay in line or stay disciplined.

If all else failed, they even had back up techniques. If needed, they would take all the fat off of the people they had already massacred, burn it, and start to catapult it into peoples homes. (document three) They also killed people in mass amounts, ranging anywhere from 30,000 people to 2,000,000 people at a time. No civilized people would kill in such a bestial manner. Once killed, in a lot of situations, the Mongol soldiers cut off the heads of the deceased and piled them up, men, women, and children. They wanted the land so that there was no life at all. Not even in animals. (document four)

Although the Mongols were sometimes very brutal they were not barbarians. The Mongols were able to come up with very complex battle tactics like no other military in their era. In document three “ History of the Mongols” recorded by John of Plano Carpini he, states “they make figures of men and set them on horses. They do this

Though the mongols were seemingly barbaric in the way which they conquered their territory, the empire they established was advanced in how its society and culture were organized and developed.

From the year 476AD, after the last Emperor Romulus Augustulus (as displayed in source 2) of the Western Roman Empire was overthrown by European barbarians, the Roman World was greatly affected, as it was now Medieval Rome. The reason of the collapse was due to civil wars breaking out among the greedy rich competing to become emperor. Many people were killed fighting against each other with various weapons, one of them being the bullets depicted in source 3. Eventually the population began to decline and the taxes increase. Various barbarian clans (as listed in source 4) were conquering many cities and the political, financial and social structure problems led to the complete collapse after a long complicated process as represented all together

When Mongols conquered areas, they would make sure to wipe out everything and everyone. The leader, Genghis Khan was very strict upon his army, soldiers and people. If they would run away or flee, “In a word, unless they retreat in a body, all who take flight are put to death.” (Document 2). As previously mentioned in the second paragraph, many cities and areas around Eurasia would be destroyed completely by the Mongols, and the Mongols made sure nothing was left, including the people which caused millions of lives

Nothing was to be left, even cats and dogs were killed. They severed the heads of their victims and put them into piles, separating the men from the women and children. (Document 4) A few survivors would be allowed to escape, only so they could carry the warning: The Mongols are coming -- submit or die. (Background

One reason why the Mongols were not cruel and brutal is because their army was organized and firmly disciplined. The Mongol military successfully took over more land in 25 years than the Romans ever did in 400. People even say that the Mongol control

A barbarian decribes a crude person in a primitive state or someone who lacks education or refinement. During the 13th Century a small Asian tribe known as the Mongols conquered much of the known world linking Western and Easter Eurasia. The Mongols were a nomadic people until they acknowledged the supreme leader Genghis Khan in 1206. Most historians formulate an arguement based on the question “The Mongols: How Barbaric Were the “Barbarians”?” The Mongols were not very barbaric because they had a highly sophisticated military, lived by a code of conduct, and helped improve the lives of those they conquered.

In the 13th century, roughly 800 years ago, a group of nomadic, horseback riding warriors known as the Mongols roamed the steppes of Central Asia. Originating from the simple life of yurts (a round moveable house) and their remarkably limited amount of personal belongings, the Mongols clawed their way to being rulers of a vast empire, stretching from Asia to Europe. However, their methods in doing so is considered by some to be barbaric and others to be not barbaric. Which leads us to the question of--how barbaric were the Mongols? By definition, “barbarians are people who live beyond the reach of civilization, people who are savage, evil” (Background Essay). On the other hand, civilization

Throughout the Mongol’s many conquests, it is obvious the great amount of destruction and violence taken upon on these. As explained

Under the righteous rule of Genghis Khan, the Mongols killed over 40 million people, while conquering a vast amount of the 14th Century world. This land would grow to be the massive equivalent of eight modern day countries including the entirety of Russia and China. Although commonly described as savagely brutal Barbarians, we must ask ourselves, “how ‘Barbaric’ was this great band of warriors?” With all things considered, the Mongols can, in fact, be described as a barbaric people based on the fact that they exhibit violent, uncivilized as well as destructive tendencies.

The peoples of Nishapur, Persia knew exactly what the extent of the horrors Khan and his army handed down upon his enemies. “By the Saturday night, all the walls were covered with Mongols;... The Mongols now descended from the walls and began to slay and plunder… They then drove all the survivors, men and women, out onto the plain; and… It was commanded that the town should be laid waste in such a manner that the site could be ploughed upon; and that… not even cats and dogs should be left alive… They severed heads of the slain from their bodies and heaped them in piles, keeping those of the men separate from the women and children.” (Excerpt from Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror.) According to a Persian chronicler, the death toll was 1,747,000 people, just imagine how utterly terrified the people of that Persian town were, watching their family members and friends being cut up right in front of

The Mongols were ferocious in battle and practiced a war of extermination. They didn’t believe in letting the enemy escape to fight another day or some other gentlemanly gestures. The western way of war often practiced taking hostages and then ransoming them. Not so with the Mongols, when they fought an enemy they tried as hard as they could to exterminate every last one of them. This practice would shake the Europeans to their core. Like the battle of Kalka River where the Mongols pursued the fleeing Russians 150 miles killing as much of them as they could, over 40,000 (100-101). Or in the Battle of Liegnitz the Hungarian king was killed and decapitated (113). The Mongols

The Mongols ' were the first modern army. This army was built on a rational structure and promotion was strictly on merit. “They were willing to adopt and combine systems from everywhere. Without deep cultural preferences in these areas, The Mongols implemented pragmatic rather than ideological solutions” (Weatherford, Jack, Genghis Khan, p. 233). The Mongols were rigorously disciplined and highly mobile, they could execute complex tactical maneuvers in silence upon orders from centralized command. They were also known for their speed and efficiency with the help of Horse and Bow, and the movement of goods with the