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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>.
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