DBQ: Genghis Khan And The Mongols

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Genghis Khan and the Mongols were willing to go to great lengths to succeed in conquering Asia. In fact, they went much too far. Although they did do many great things for the economy of the towns they conquered, and they held many admirable beliefs, that does not excuse the fact that they killed a very large amount of people and they did so in terrible ways. Genghis Khan had incredibly strict rules for his men. Document 2 states that if a group of 10 people flee from battle, then the other 90 people that were part of that group all get put to death. This is very cruel and unfair, because even if you had tried to stop them from deserting, you still got put to death because the rest of your group didn’t stop them either. The Mongols did very

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