Disadvantages Of Mongols

The magnitude of the Mongol empire from the beginning to its greatest heights is an amazing story. Weatherford states “he smashed the feudal system of aristocratic privilege and birth, he built a new unique system based on individual merit, loyalty, and achievement” (xix). All of these newly presented ideas assist Khan in his conquest of unity and progression. In the battle against the Bukhara, he had many of the local people either assist him in his mission or be punished brutally. This old, but newly used concept of divide and conquer worked in Khan’s favor. It not only caused the surrender of the Bukhara, but when word spread it assisted in the surrender of the capital of Samarka (9). He realized the power of psychological warfare and used it to his advantage. In a campaign against Jamuka, the displaying of the Spirit Banner was used to make it difficult for the opposing side viewing these Banners to fight if the kinsmen had used ancestors’ Spirit Banner. This was used as “tantamount” to attacking

Throughout the 13th century world, the Mongols constantly showed displays of continuous violence, drinking, brutality and unfair treatment. They were considered to be savages, and people who lived far beyond what we would know as a “civilized world.” They single handedly became one of, if not the most powerful empires to have existed, building their empire through violent and barbaric manors. The Mongols were very barbaric people, for they portrayed many inhumane and mannerless actions while their empire lasted, causing death destruction and the downfall of all of the land they took over.

The Mongolians ruled most of China for almost 2 centuries from 1200 to 1360. They executed millions and destroyed tons of homes and villages. They conquered 11-12 million square miles of land. The Mongolians had a powerful ruler named Genghis Khan, who with his army killed over 40 million people. The Mongolians had a negative impact on the future history of Asia and the World because they killed millions and they started the Bubonic Plague, the Mongolians also burned the largest library in the World.

In the 13 century, a small tribe from the steppes of central Asia conquered much of the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The tribe was known as the Mongol warriors. The Mongols were ruthless and very barbaric. While the Mongols conquered many countries they didn’t care who they hurt.Even though they did benefit some of the areas that they conquered, they did too many bad things that overpowered the good things. Their law was very confusing and in some parts it was unreasonable. They would torture survivors and they conquered more land than any of the greatest world conquest. As ruthless as the Mongols could be, to my surprise they were quite organized as a union. In documents 2 and 3 it talks about how the army should be organized and how they

The way Mongols succeeded in ruling over vast territories interested me the most. Most of the time when you read history the “conquerors” of the land would force the native people to convert to their religion and culture. Instead they were willing to incorporate other ethnic groups into the armies and the government sometimes giving them high leadership positions. However, the people put into those positions had to prove their loyalty to the Mongol empire. Some of the people that held higher positions in the government were the Uighurs, Tibetans, Persians, Chinese, and Russians. With all of these different people working together they were able to take over many lands, very quickly. For example, Chinese helped breach the walls of Baghdad in

There was a common theme on the prosecuting side of lack of religious tolerance from the mongols, but the witness testimonies were circumstantial to a specific region or rule. It is inevitable for soldiers and generals to force people to join their own religion, but that does not take away from the overall religious tolerance of the mongols and their predecessors talked about. There was Buddhist and Muslims in the upper class positions that were kept strictly for the mongols disproving this

The Mongols were a small tribe from the grasslands of Central Asia. They conquered a lot of the known world. It has been debated whether the Mongol’s are barbaric or not, or how barbaric they really are. The Mongol’s are barbaric because they conquered more land than any other conquerors, had brutal army strategies, and immoral laws. The Mongols conquered more land than any other conquerors.

Overall, this article holds significance because it demonstrates that even though the Mongols upheld and integrated foreign institutions into their Empire, that they remained in control. Morgan begins his argument by addressing the challenges of sources, especially because most of the sources pertaining to the Mongol Empire where documented by Persian and Chinese authors. Next, he goes onto discuss the three types of governmental institutions that I listed above in order to demonstrate the nature of the Mongol Empire. Later, he concludes that the reasons for these governmental implementations where to increase profits within the Empire, as well as gather military strength. Lastly, because of this information given, he is able to conclude that the Mongols overwhelmingly used the people that they the controlled to benefit their empire, and even though some individuals like Rashid Al-Din were given powerful positions, that they were never in charge of the military campaigns that the Empire was established upon and thus inferior.

In the era of third-wave civilizations, there were major states that had centralized governments and those without. The Aztec Empire, most were Mexica people, had a centralized government. “ The extent of empire and rapid population growth stimulated the development of markets and the production of craft goods”(582) The Mexica people began to trade in the Americas and It was important for their government to put out what was okay to trade to have relations with other states. There government produced markets and craft goods to trade with their surroundings. Therefore, The Mexica people had good relationships with other states in terms of their works in trade due to their centralized government. The Mongols are known as the ones who killed many people. Well, the Mongols did have a centralized government.“ In 1209, the first major attack on the settled agricultural societies south of Mongolia set in motion half a century of a Mongol world war, a series of military campaigns, massive killing and empire building.”(524) At this time, the Mongols were under the rule of the Khanate, Chinggis Khan. Chinggis Khan claimed that the Sky God gave him orders to conquer others. Therefore, the Mongols were under the rule of conquering other empires such as the Persian Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate in order to please the Sky God. This meant that their empire expanded to almost all of Asia. It is obvious that their relationship with other states were terrible, as they sacked states that

Mongol rule differed and compared in varying degrees with that of other kingdoms and empires of the day in terms of trade, religious freedom, treatment of criminals and prisoners of war, the treatment of aristocrats and the rule of law. Unlike other empires and kingdoms of the time, the Mongols supported complete freedom of religion. The Mongols kept this law as time passed. Jack Weatherford provides evidence of this in the following quote, depicting religious freedom during Ogodei Khan's reign: " Nowhere else could followers of so many different religions worship side by side in peace (Weatherford 135)."Treatment of criminals in the Mongol Empire differed greatly from other Kingdoms of the time. Unlike the kingdoms in Europe, the Mongols

The Mongol conquests and campaigns of the thirteenth century markeddid indeed mark an important break in Eurasian History as they brought the the Eurasian world together as never before. The Mongols were a mixture of forest and prairie people that lived by hunting and livestock herding. As skilled archers and deadly warriors they expanded their empire to stretch across northern and central Asia conquering territories much larger than their own. This unleashed a chain of events that would leave an impact on the world for ages to come. Trade integrated cultures from all across Eurasia, accompanying disease. The Mongols conquests brought unprecedented destruction among Eurasia. The Mongols did more than just conquer though; they intensified cultural exchange through trade and actually bringing about a period of peace In Eurasia. As the Mongols built their empire, assimilating conquered peoples and some of their ways, the world became integrated sea and land, in historically unrivaled ways.

While you may first think that an institution like religion would have struggled under the Mongols, in fact, the Russian Orthodox Church took advantage of Mongol practices in order to become even stronger than before. !!! Taking Advantage of Mongol Practices Unlike most other institutions of lands conquered by the Mongols, religious orders tended to fare pretty well under the invaders. The Mongols never really had an interest in spreading a religious belief to anyone they conquered, and often saw missionary activity of their own as wildly inefficient. After all, violence, or the threat thereof, was often more than enough to get the Mongols anything that they wanted.

The main religion that Kublai Khan favored during the Mongolian empire was Buddhism although he allowed the people to practice their own religion like Islam and Christianity. Buddhist entered service of the Mongol Empire after being defeated by Genghis khan ,his grandfather, and continuing during the ruling of Kublai Khan. The tolerance they had towards religion also continued during Kublai's ruling leaving their religion to be open to the people.The religious freedom the mongols had was continued throughout the empire and The religious tolerance was able to successfully allow the Mongols to rule the worlds largest empire.

The Mongols impacted the course of history in Eurasia, but the resulting destruction: ruined empires and the Black Death, lead to a need for rebuilding and reestablishing the once powerful empires from the Post-Classical time period from the fifteenth century. Ansary argues that the Mongol Holocaust had both positive and negative effects. Because of the Mongols, there was a new sense of global awareness and synchronizing that was reflected in similarities between different lands. Yet, the mass murdering and destruction from Timar was a definite low point. Even so, due to the destruction that resulted, communication and trade became world-wide and new, strong empires were born. They were fueled by new technology and unified by religion. The level of religious tolerance in each empire was determined by each empire’s interpretation of the Qur’an. Ansary highlights his opinion of the two most important products of post-Mongol rebirth, new interpretations of the Qur'an and Muslim religious theory as well as the emergence of Sufism, within the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires.

Allowing for religion to be the people's choice gave everyone equal opportunity but also was not an ideal idea for he accepted Nestorianism in which is a type of Christianity for his mother was so called “princess” of (history.info). Being the leader he was, Kublai Khan made a strong military who invaded many places such as the Song Dynasty, Vietnam, what is now known as Indonesia, and Burma. Trying to invade Japan but failing multiple times, they attacked back defeating the Mongol ships (history.info). Showing how truly powerful his military was but also not being the most powerful, surrounding military forces did not just approach his military for did not know the outcome. Realising that his empire longed for chinese culture he did was he thought was best which was moving the entire empire from Karakorum to Tai-tu which was precisely 1,273 km away from each other (history.com). His people were so intrigued in the chinese culture he allowed them to serve as counselors and be in his government which meant not only did they have to carry out his ideas but respect them as well for these are the people he trusted most. Considering all his people and effects of everything he did, Kublai Khan is a man of word and reason for nothing was done to benefit him but his empire as