The Mongols: The Mongolian Empire

The Mongolian Empire quickly conquered monumental sums of land in only a relatively small amount of time. A main problem they needed to overcome though was figuring out a way to govern and maintain the newly acquired land. A man called Genghis Khan united the Mongols, and with superior military skills they were able to topple the governments of surrounding nations and captured their lands. The Mongols often fitted the ‘new’ government to their liking, installing different systems that were much to their control.
With the Mongols becoming so dominate in China they were able to impact much of its future. They impacted the Silk Road, its trades and religions and cultures that travelled along it. Genghis Khan realising that he would not be able to control all the routes for long, he began to methodically destroy Arabian and Turkic cities standing on the southern route. By doing so he wanted to stop the intense commodity exchange beyond his control. For the first and last time in the Silk Roads long history, almost the entire length was ruled by one power. Some cities prospered from their rule, mainly cities on the Silk Road.
The Mongols had to recruit the help of other groups for their armies and government to, “succeed in creating the world’s largest land empire” (Pg. 80; C.W.H). In the development of Mongol government included a lot of inside help from the Chinese, Emperor Shizu ‘hired many Chinese advisors and officials’. By the effective tactics use of Chinese, Khitan, Jurchen, Korean, and Persian troops, it allowed the Mongols to take control of nearly the whole South part of China. I believe that a lot of the Mongols success and failure happened from their involvement with other authoritative powers, that the rise of Mongol power involved a lot of other cultures as