Romans And Mongols Similarities

There are a couple of main similarities between the Mongols and the Romans, in general. The main one being that the two had very disciplined Military forces comparable to modern day armies. Both forces understood what it took to conduct campaigns rather than fight individual battles to the death....almost the beginnings of operational arts although they certainly didn't realize this and codify it. Also, both the Romans and Mongols were very good combat engineers with the Romans being some of the greatest combat engineers the world has ever seen and the Mongols using ethnic Chinese engineers and siege equipment. Consequently both knew how to conduct siege operations. Both also understood logistics. The Romans obviously understood this because