Why Are The Mongols Barbaric

The world has viewed the Mongols as destructive barbarians; however, the Mongols viewed themselves as soldiers. The perception of themselves is important because they did not believe it was destructive to unite a world empire. They believed that because they were soldiers, anyone in their path could be taken down by force. The nations that defined Mongols as destructive are the same people that resisted joining their empire. The Mongol’s obsession with power, dedication to their leader, and their need to possess land is why I believe they should not be remembered as destructive barbarians. Instead, I think they should be known as the empire that failed to unite the world.

Although the Mongolians have killed many thousands of people, and most innocent, you have to put yourself in their shoes and try to understand why they did the things they did. For example in 1221 the Mongols attacked Nishapur, Persia, and they killed around 1,747,000 people (Doc 4), but how could anyone call them barbaric, if no one knows their reason, and we don’t even know it is the truth, all

But it's believed that they were not. The definition of barbaric is being brutal or uncivil. But, the Mongols

I believe the mongols were barbaric and don’t deserve to have the scale tip in their favor. In the first slide it says the streets were filled with human flesh and fat, from women, children, and adults regardless if they were a combatant or not. Another example would be the city of Riazan, it was razed to the ground and it’s inhabitants were all massacred, only a few were left alive to spread the message. It’s widely known that if you refused to surrender then the whole city would be massacred and raised to the ground.

Positively, the Mongols were great conquerors and they respected each other, negatively, they brutally harmed people and valuables in the process. Charles J. Halperin wonderfully stated, “The Mongol Empire made significant contributions to the political institutions, economic development, and cultural diversity of many lands. No history of the Mongol Empire dwells only on Mongol destruction, can be satisfactory” (Doc 6). The history of the Mongols can’t only be about the negativity that they caused to society as the Mongols had a more positive impact rather than a negative impact. The Mongols created a vast empire throughout Eurasia, but it wasn’t worth killing over 5 million people in the process. In the end, as a result of the vast empire, they weren’t able to control it. Eventually, the Mongol empire and became a part of the society in the area and vanished

The Middle ages was the time of revolutionizing, war, and the mongols peak. . Although the Mongols were considered barbarians, people who l the reach of civilization Referring to being evil. they were very civil. They had a skilled army, were adaptable, and had a set of laws.

The Mongolians in the 1200s were very barbaric. Throughout most of their endeavors have been mostly detailed violence. If anything a better word to describe the Mongols were savages. These ancient warriors conquered and pillaged almost everything of the known world in the 1200s. They were violent and brutal in their journey to expand and conquer.

There have been many historians and just regular people that take one look at the Mongols and just assume right away that they were ruthless barbarians that killed anyone in their way or without the same beliefs. But if you take a closer look is that still true? No. The mongols were in fact not barbaric but in turn were civilized. Although some people will still make the argument even after that closer look that Mongols were uncivilized monsters. I see where that is a valid point, but with their understanding ways and their clever techniques, we should admire them, not put shame on them for being barbaric when they weren’t.

I do not believe that the Mongols were uncivilized Human beings. As stated during the trial the Mongols, Genghis Khan, in particular, was not raised as the people of the great empires were, so what may have seemed as civilized to the Mongols was deemed as barbaric by others. In today's society if a person from a higher class was to go visit a third world country, some of the customs may seem as uncivilized, but to the resident of the country these “barbaric” customs are the norm. While the Mongols did murder, pillage, and rape people, they also brought advanced technologies and a safer trade system for the people. Genghis Khan globalized the world, expanded trade and made trade safer. Through trade cultures, techniques and ideas spread. Not only were the empires that were already incorporated with the trade systems positively affected, but specifically Europe benefited the most from the trade that was facilitated by the Mongols. While the murders was a definite loss for the people the great advancements had a greater long-term positive effect. At the cost of human lives came centuries

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

The Barbarians were known as the Mongols, a group of ferocious fighters from the 1200’s that was led by Genghis Khan, who was called Temujin as a boy. The Mongols had no mercy, they wiped out whole cities, not even letting animals such as cats and dogs live in some places. They were also nomadic people, they lived in round movable houses called yurts, and they moved after they took down a city. The Mongols also used torture as a technique to get either information and or revenge. One example of this torture was boiling their victims alive, if they thought it was necessary. Also, while they were taking over a village, if any men, women, or children tried to run away, all of them were put to death right then and there. Together, Mongolian army consisted of a whopping 200,000 troops. The Mongols used this power of fear from Asian people to conquer almost five million square miles of land. After Genghis died, his direct relatives such as his nephew took his place, but more and more people were fighting over owning the throne of Khans. So after much arguing, it was decreed that the land that was already conquered by the mongols to be separated into four different regions called Khanates, they consisted of, The Golden Horde of Russia, Ilkhanate of Persia, Chaghadai Khanate of Central Asia, and The Khanate of the Great Khan of China.

Mongolian conquests and invasions devastated affected areas and left survivors terrified. To all areas they have invaded including Tangut cities, Novgorod, and Nishapur, Mongols treated inhabitants harshly and most of the time, killed them (Doc.1, 2, 3, 6). Monks

The Mongol Empire had many impacts on modern day Asia and other parts of the world. Genghis Khan led an empire from the steppes of Asia during the 13th century, called the Mongols. They conquered a lot of land, from to Korea to Poland, and also from Vietnam to Syria. Because they ‘terrorized’ much of Asia, they were known as barbarians. They were thought to live beyond civilization, and known as evil. The Mongolians of the Asian Steppe had a negative impact on the world during their rule of the Asian continent from 1206 to 1368 by influencing violence, destruction, and the falling of cities.

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 Mongols were first off very brutal people whose only focuses were to kill people to get what they wanted, land. One reason why the Mongols were so brutal was because their brutal leaders who told them what to do and go for. According to the background essay on the Mongols “Numerous chinese cities fell, including where Mongol slaughter was so great the streets were said to be greasy with flesh.” This was all done under the leadership of Genghis Khan who launched this army. Therefore, Khan led this army