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Mongol Empire Research Paper

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Gao Mo
06/06/16
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History Research Paper The reason why the Mongol Empire was a place of power because of it strong social structure, unique religion rules, frequently trade with other countries in the world, powerful and undefeated military and the superior location. Social structure of the Mongols made its society peaceful and stable, religion rules made the empire get supports from other countries and religion, trade opened the empire to the whole world and increased the economic level, solid military made the empire powerful and the great location made it have more advantages against other countries. To start with, the society of the Mongol empire is peaceful and social structure is stable and strong. As one of the …show more content…

Because of the way they live, the nomadic life, they realized the importance of the trade. They didn’t like Chinese, the Mongolian favored trading with other countries such as those in West Asia and Europe, they built a number of roads which made the trade easier. Not only they benefited themselves, but also influenced other countries. China, for example, the Mongols increase the amount of banknotes in circulation and to ensure that the value of paper money in precious metals. ( * ) The merchants from different countries was encouraged to come to the empire and trade with Mongolian.( * ) Since the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the merchants from Europe could not travel safely and the merchants from India could not make business on the Black sea and Eastern Mediterranean. So they wanted to travel safely to another play can continue trading. The Mongol Empire pointed all the merchants could travel to here with a greater safety and this announcement was guaranteed by the Pax Mongolica. ( * ) Because of this movement of the Mongol empire, more and more merchants came to the empire and started trading with mongolians. The things was traded not only the goods from different places, but also religion, technique, culture, art, medicinal ideas were traded, too. ( * ) The trade of the empire made it famous, opened the communication with other parts of the world, …show more content…

As people all know, the Mongolian army always won the battle with a less amount against the enemy with a larger amount of soldiers. The reason why their army was such a successful existence, one of the most important reason is because their high advanced war equipment. For instance, the silk underwear. It was a light armor but worked as a shield. It could hold the arrows which shoot from far distance, protected soldiers from poison and humid weather. Compare to other armor and gear, the silk underwear was much lighter, it gave the soldiers more flexibility of their body when they put on armor and improved the move speed. There are more advanced equipments such as trebuchets, Xuanfeng catapults which was a long-distance attacking weapon, Mongolian horses which gave the faster motion and so on. ( * ) On the one hand, the army was tough. On the other hand, the Mongol army have a good organizer and effective tactics. Genghis Khan was one of the best Strategist in the history, his tactics were simple but effective, flexible and useful. For example,“The Mongols pioneered the use of feigned flight, surprise attacks, hostage taking, psychological warfare and human shields. The Mongol cavalry, situated around the around the outside of the tumen, could swiftly advance to the front with little warning, and attack the enemy with a hail of arrows” ( * ), all those tactics

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