Holland Meier

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Are Mongols Good or bad?

First Entry,     

From my further knowledge I haven’t heard any good things about the Mongols. They aren’t very good people from what I’ve heard like wiping out entire cities. Also they attack and conquer many empires and cities. They are known to be ruthless when they are conquering the cities. Like in 1211 they conquered the Jin Empire, then around 1218 they conquered Khwarazmian Empire. Those were both big empires.

            Mongols might kill their horse because they don’t have food to eat. This shows they Mongols don’t care about their animals so how are they to show any compassion to when it comes to killing entire cities. So from what Ive heard they don’t seem very good.

Second Entry,

Now after my trip I have seen the way that the Mongols really are first hand. They aren’t as violent as they seem, and when we hear stories that don’t show us how they really are. The Mongols are just herders of domestic animals and they follow a path, they don’t just go to random places. They have a path that they go on depending on the season. And they are very strategic when they go to conquer cities they make a plan and that’s why they succeed in conquering so many cities and empires.

The Mongols have found a way to survive and expand their empire. Like how they trade in each city and that’s how they make money and get other things to trade later. They might trade seeds for farming, animals, or share some ways of life. They have expanded their empire so much that they have joined in new people and their cultures and that is what shaped the Mongols in many ways because they were the type of people to accept new cultures and join them, not like some people who want everyone to follow their culture and not have any of their own culture.

Third Entry,

            Now I’m going to compare the Romans and The Mongols. The romans and the Mongols were similar in how they both have very strong armies and with those arming they were able to expand a lot. The Mongols spread out into Asia and some into Africa. Then the romans conquered pretty much all of the land around the Mediterranean Sea. Both of them were strong in trade because the Mongols had a lot of land and traveled a lot so it was easier for them to trade. And the romans were all around a sea with helped them a lot in trading also. They both had some problems it the way everything was so in the end they both collapsed, but before then they were and still are now considered the 2 strongest empires in that time. The romans in the end had expanded so much that it was hard to control everything at once and that also lead to the collapse for the Mongols. I think that people have so many different views on the Mongols because everyone sees them differently. Some people see them as terrible ruthless people who just destroyed everything, and then some people see the sheepherders that excelled when it can to conquering empires. It really just depends on how you look at them weather its good or bad.

Works Cited

·       "World History Connected | Vol. 5 No. 2 | Timothy May: The Mongol Empire in World History." World History Connected | Vol. 5 No. 2 | Timothy May: The Mongol Empire in World History. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2014. <http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/5.2/may.html>.

·       "Internet History Sourcebooks Project." Internet History Sourcebooks Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2014. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/mpolo44-46.asp>.

·       "The Mongols in World History | Asia Topics in World History." The Mongols in World History | Asia Topics in World History. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2014. <http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/figures/figures.htm>.