How Barbaric Were the Barbarians The ancient Mongols were often labeled as barbarians and savages. During their takeover from 1100 to 1300, the Mongols were fierce warriors and showed little mercy to their enemies. This can often be mistaken for barbaric, but there is a fine line between barbaric and powerful. The Mongols were barbaric in some areas, but they were also powerful in so many more. The Mongols were one of the most powerful fighting forces in all of Eurasia. With the leadership of Genghis Khan, they had flawless fighting techniques that not only fooled the enemy but guaranteed victory. One of the techniques they had for taking down a city was to wait outside so no one could get in or out. This caused the people inside to starve and become weak. Then they would attack. With the city's defenses weak from hunger, the Mongols had an easy win.(Document 3) This tactic wouldn’t seem barbaric if the Mongols hadn’t killed every last man, woman, and child. Anybody they thought weren't worth taking were slaughtered; with the exception of a few people they …show more content…
They believed so fiercely in the laws against stealing and they show much respect to each other, even when food is running low. They respected women too and never took advantage of them. When they finally gained control over a lot of Eurasia, they respected the people's culture and gradually adopted it. The Great Khan believed in one God, but recognized that not everyone felt that way. He didn’t force his religions onto others. He also built thousands of “yams”, or resting places for messengers with comfortable lodgings and hundreds of horses. These weren’t cheap and he taxed heavily for them. The Mongols also increased trade throughout all of Eurasia and protected anyone traveling on trade routes. This helped bring goods, ideas, and diseases to other countries much faster.(Document 6, 7, 8, 9, and
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
Mongol Empire is not sophisticated like Greek or grandeur like the Roman but they still able to shape the world. Mongols unify China and exposed it to world trade. The Mongol contributed to India by giving one of its greatest Monarchs, Akbar the Great. He was the best Mongolian emperor of India. Mongols also help Russians to unify and formed their own empire. Mongol Empire is known for their religious tolerance, they gave people the freedom to choose their own religion. They welcomed different religion like Buddhism, Islam and Roman Catholic. In conclusion, Mongol Empire shaped the world by shaping Russia and China, the two largest and mightiest countries in the
Who were the Mongols? Most would think they were just a bunch of dishonorable people with no moral and treated their conquered people horribly. But really, they were not that bad if you were not the ones fighting them. Although the Mongols started as a small, nomadic group, they could expand, conquer, and maintain their empire because of their effective military tactics, their religious tolerance and integration, as well as their flourishing trade.
The Mongols were a fearless and powerful group that dominated Asia and Eastern Europe during the 13th century. They did this through their battle tactics. The Mongols often fought on horseback and surrounded their enemies, which was an extremely efficient way to conquer. Their battle tactics portrayed them as barbaric and scary, enabling them to surround and conquer lands. Throughout the 13th century, the Mongols portrayed a barbaric image to the rest of the world due to their battle tactics, severe punishments, and their ability to conquer great amount of land.
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
The Mongols, a small tribe 800 years ago expanded and conquered a lot of Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The Mongols are known for being ruthless warriors and having a negative reputation, being called “Barbarians”. They were in fact Barbaric, but how Barbaric were the Mongols really? The Mongols were extremely barbaric and were unmerciful. The Mongols caused so much destruction, caused many deaths and ruined people's lives, and not to mention how inhuman, savage and evil they were.
While the Mongol desire for power grew bigger and stronger, they conquered over 11 million contiguous square miles. The Mongols were a small tribe from the grasslands who were nomadic people. As the empire thrived in the 13th century, they successfully taken over Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. The powerful ruler, Genghis Khan, helped the Mongols emerge from the nomadic tribes. The empire grew rapidly under his leadership and also under his descendants. However, should the Mongols be considered barbaric or did they create a civilized society? Due to their strong military, tolerance for the different religions, and their positive principles in the community, the Mongol empire established a sophisticated society.
During the 13th century, Central Asia was taken aback with a force that demanded to be reckoned with, the Mongols(later knowns as Khans), although astounding conquerors, were barbaric in their ways of gaining power. This can be seen through their military tactics, treatment of enemies, and casualties of war.
When we hear the word “barbaric”, what usually comes to mind is someone who is uncivilized and brutal. An empire that is often dubbed as barbaric is the Mongolian Empire. The Mongols took out many different civilizations and killed a lot of innocent people, but that shouldn’t distract from the good they’ve done. The Mongols were barbaric, but they weren’t barbaric without cause. They conquered with purpose, and it certainly was a successful tactic in keeping their empire alive.
Throughout the 13th century, the Mongols showed the world how barbaric they actually were. To other groups of people, they were known as cruel, very violent, barbaric and people who definitely lived far from what was considered as a “civilized world.” People thought of barbaric as a negative term referring to people who lived beyond the reach of civilization, people who were savage, evil according to the background essay. The Mongols could be expressed as one of the most barbaric groups out there because they revealed their violence by causing death, destruction, and the downfall of all the land that they had conquered.
It is evident through events in history that many people and groups resort to barbarism to achieve their goals and aspirations. The Mongols, Christians, and Muslims demonstrated similar actions throughout their interactions with others to complete their different objectives. Yet, the barbarism exhibited by the Christians and Muslims exceeded that of the Mongols as they engaged in extreme actions to attain their conquests for religious purposes.
The military’s new way to invade cities involved catapulting large stones, diseased animals and flame bombs over the walls. The Mongol empire also cut off the supplies of their opponents so the people would starve, and even flooded the towns causing much damage and chaos (“Battle Tactics”). The rule of the great Khans left many cities into
Perhaps no other empire throughout history has become so powerful so quickly as that of the Mongols. Beginning in the twelfth century, the Mongols, a group of nomads living on the harsh steppes of Central Asia emerged as a strong military empire. The Mongols most prominent leader was Genghis Khan (Chinggiz Khan). Under Khan the Mongols took control of approximately twenty- four million square kilometers of Eastern and Central Asia. Genghis Khan’s charisma and innovations in law, military, and organization gave him the tools to expand his Mongol empire exponentially. The empire became so wealthy because in return for the people’s allegiance to him, While the Mongols saw themselves as a strong and powerful empire others outside of their empire saw them as Barbarians. People of other empires in Eastern and Central Asia thought of the Mongols as a threat because they were monsters
The author attributes the West’s pre misconception of the Mongols as violent savages in part to the skewed descriptions of them recorded by the elites of the peoples they conquered. Weatherford then presents the fact that the Mongols would kill the leaders of those they conquered in an effort to purge any resistance to their
The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians are portrayed throughout history as bloodthirsty savages that only care about killing people and pillaging villages and towns. The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongols often don’t receive credit for the ways that they positively impacted ancient civilizations. Even though the barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians impacted ancient civilizations in positive ways they also did some things that impacted ancient civilizations in negative ways.