military superiority. Together with the superior quality of each of its individual soldiers in terms of discipline‚ weapons and combat skills‚ the Mongolian army was able to take on larger and more disciplined armies from larger civilizations. The Mongols are basically nomads‚ roaming the steppe-desert world and moving from oasis to oasis. They rely heavily on their horses and
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with Genghis Khan who unites the Mongols‚ but the Mongol dynasty falls in 1368 A.D. The most important question is‚ but was the Mongol Empire brilliant or brutal? The documents that we read support that the Mongol empire was brutal. I will use documents 1 and 4 to support my arguments. The first reason the Mongol Empire was brutal has to do with the document on code of conduct whosever commits adultery will be executed. This evidence helps explain how the Mongol empire was brutal because they killed
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of the Mongol empire‚ but mainly the size of empire was too large for one person to rule‚ they weren’t able to maintain religious traditions‚ and fighting in war was difficult. The Mongol Empire once stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean sea and had many different religions and civilizations. The substantial size of the empire alone was enough to cause rulers difficulty in controlling the citizens. From 1162-1227‚ the Mongol was at it’s height‚ but from 1769-1821‚ the Mongol had decreased
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13th centuries the Mongols swept across Eurasia and conquered various peoples‚ including the Persians and Chinese. There are many similarities and differences in the political and economic effects of Mongol rule on the Abbasid Empire in Persia and on the Yuan Dynasty in China. In both regions‚ the Mongols were relatively tolerant of all religions. However‚ they differed in that the Mongol’s allowed Persia to have native administrators but did not allow China to. When the Mongols ruled in Persia and
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# 19 Mongol Study Guide WHY DID THE MONGOLS COME TO POWER? The Mongols came to power under the rule of Chinggis Kahn due to Chinggis partnering up with a more powerful nomad group who owed his tribe a favor. With the aid of another group‚ he sought revenge on the tribe who enslaved him. After winning several attacks‚ Chinggis began gaining a good reputation which culminated into multiple groups appointing him the khagan‚ supreme leader‚ over the Mongols in 1206‚ which led to the Mongols uniting
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COMP Essay: Mongols vs. Aztecs The rise of the two empires of the Mongols‚ and the Aztecs‚ are similar in that they both conquered massive territories‚ but they differed in that‚ unlike the Mongols‚ the Aztec empire used a lot of ritual sacrifice to scare new territories into respecting them‚ and another difference was that the Aztec were a settled empire‚ but the Mongols were a nomadic tribe. Both the empires of the Mongols and the Aztecs were similar in that they both controlled a large
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Transformation of the Mongols The Mongols were a group of pastoral nomadic peoples whose expansion into Central Asia led to the dispersion of ideas‚ culture‚ and technology throughout the continent. Until 1206 AD‚ the Mongols were a group of warring tribes. The Mongols centralized‚ expanded and transformed under their charismatic leader‚ Genghis Khan. The Mongol empire expanded into Russia‚ Afghanistan‚ Persia‚ and Ukraine. The Mongols consumed most of Central Asia through a series of brutal
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the best and don’t care what they have to do to get there. The Mongol Empire around the thirteenth century was no exception. They took over many powerhouses of Eurasia and the Mongol Empire is considered one of the largest land empires to ever rule. Though to most the Mongol Empire was a vast and omnipotent empire‚ China and the Middle East’s economy as well as their politics experienced devastation post Mongol conquest. The Mongols were well aware of the riches they could gain from China and squeezed
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One major change during the Mongol Empire was when the death of the single ruler‚ Chinggis Khan‚ brought upon the division into four khanates‚ three of his sons and a grandson. Dividing up the empire among sons and heirs was an original tribal accordance. His son‚ Ogadei‚ was the successor of the title “Great Khan”. Each khanate ruled and continued to conquer their own sections of the Mongol Empire. One distinct change was the ultimate defeat of the Southern Song dynasty by Chinggis’ grandson
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Afro-Eurasia area fell due to one of the most fearsome and dangerous armies in the 13th century‚ the Mongols. From China to Persia‚ across the Nile River to Egypt‚ the Mongols took what they wanted and controlled what they wanted. With the Mongols military‚ brutality and their form of equality in the 13th century‚ this enabled them to conquest large territories within such a short time. The Mongols were brutal people when they didn’t get what they pleased. They would use as much violence as they
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