The nomads of central Asia during the thirteenth century returned to center stage in world history. The Mongols ended or interrupted the great postclassical empires while extending the world network of that era. Led by Chinggis Khan and his successors, they brought central Asia, China, Persia, Tibet, Iraq, Asia Minor, and southern Russia under their control. The states formed dominated most of Asia for one and a half centuries. The Mongol success was the most formidable nomadic challenge to the global dominance of the sedentary, civilized core civilizations since the first century C.E. The Mongols often are portrayed as barbarian, destructive…
To conclude the question of “The Mongols: How Barbaric Were the “Barbarians”?”. The evidence shows that they were very cruel in ways. Whether it's the death count or the way they treated the captured, killing them by boiling them to death or giving Temuchin’s blood brother a noble death by breaking his…
“Eight hundred years a relatively small army eventually conquered the largest contiguous empire in history.”…
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Anonymous monks in Novgorod, Russia recorded the event of a Mongol invasion and the horrors that came with it, writing “They likewise killed the Knyaz and the Knyaginya, and men, women, and children, monks, nuns and priests, some by fire, some by sword, and violated nuns, priests’ wives, good women and girls in the presence of their mothers and sisters… And we, indeed, having seen it, were terrified and wept with sighing day and night over our sins…”. We can probably count this source as reliable because it was written by Monks, and it is in their religion, which by they live their life that they should not lie. In a letter to the Great Khan from Pope Innocent IV, another religious source, he writes “and with a fury still unabated you do not cease from braking the bonds of natural ties, sparing neither sex nor age, you rage against all indiscriminately with the sword of chastisement.”. His tone is almost accusatory, but there is fear and disbelief at what the Great Khan has done. We cannot mark this source as reliable, however, because in his letter he writes “according to what we have heard”, and therefore has not witnessed anything he is accusing the Khan…
The book I have chosen is called Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. This book describes the Mongol Legacy and how his achievements have impacted the globe since he was first found. This book consists of Jack Weatherford’s take of how the Mongolian empire impacted the world. This book is divided into sections that talk about the stages of the Mongol influence.…
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are here today to determine the conclusion of Genghis Khan. The prosecution presents various reasons why my client should be sentence to death, but they did not tell you, the jury, why he did what he did. They also did not even address the positive contribution Genghis has promoted.…
When reading these stories of the rasping truth and then reading the responses of the accused men, I became extremely enraged. They would contradict themselves and always blame the laws, that they were merely following orders, "Accused Boger would you care to reconsider your statement that you never fired a shot in the camp. Accused #2: I stand by my statement today and a thousand years from now I will stand by it. Not that I would have been afraid to shoot. I would only have been carrying out orders" 2. This man then continues to respond on the next page with "I did once"3. This really agitates me. Almost every one of the accused denied it first then eventually gave up and started to blame the obedience that led them to do it. They then start to try and make it sound like they should be victims too. "As an old soldier I was able to save many lives by helping with the evacuations. My own son was killed"4. This is where an accused person tries to make it seem like they should take pity on him. His son died? What about the…
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The Mongol empire was larger than any empire of its time, covering an area almost as large as Africa. Despite this fact, its people were generally known as brutal savages who lived to destroy civilizations. However, Jack Weatherford believes otherwise. He recognizes Mongolia’s leader, Genghis Khan, as a highly influential ruler instead of a blood-thirsty barbarian. In fact, Weatherford attributes many aspects of the Renaissance and European culture in general to Genghis Khan’s rule. In his best-seller, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Weatherford describes not only the history of this great Mongolian ruler,…
They looked up to China’s culture hoping to absorb it, but by doing so, they lost strength, becoming impotent as an empire. (Schlager and Lauer) As the years passed, it is clear that the Mongols’ focus veered from their violence and resilience to becoming more “sophisticated” in terms of their culture. They showed an enormous amount of care towards how other countries viewed them and their image in the world, insistent that the one way to be respected was to have a refined culture. Rashid al-Din, an Ilkhanid bureaucrat and historian, states that toward the end of the reign of Ghazan Khan, the monarch proposed to pay his troops by issuing them iqtas. He asserted that “at this time, most of the soldiers had the desire for estates and for the (practice of) agriculture”. (Morgan and Morgan 432) The soldiers themselves, who had championed with their adaptability and speed, were now opting to settle and cultivate land instead, disrupting armies and impeding the Mongols from sustaining the territories they had in their possession and invading new…
You might say with Genghis Khan being the most productive biological father of all time, their empire should’ve persevere longer than it did. The Mongols were pastoralists. The Mongols were blustery warriors that some might even call barbaric. But that’s not the case at all, Mongols were the first to master riding a horse in full stride and having enough meticulousness to kill their target which made them like human tanks.…
Although the Christian and Muslim warriors were of extreme cruelty, the Mongols brutality and carelessness was far greater because of their battle tactics, physiological warfare, and weaponry. These ‘barbarians’ captured a surplus amount of land in a stunning amount of time with questionable war tactics. Despite the brutality of the Mongols, Christian and Muslin warriors began to become more and more merciless. All three of these groups of warriors prove to be dangerous and cruel, but the Mongols seem to have the perfect mix of terror and destruction to make them the most brutal.…
The life story of Genghis Khan fascinates because of the significant strides he made in life. Unlike his grandson who inherited power, he had to work hard to reach the position of power. While his rise to power was in itself a major achievement, his success to unite and organize a formidable force made up of Mongols, who were essentially nomads, is a reflection of his intellectual acuteness. Even though also acknowledging that his grandson, Kublai Khan, was also successful in conquering the parts of China that his grandfather did not, the organization and coordination that Genghis Khan established was essentially the template that was being used.…