Dbq Mongols Essay

Mongols, referred to as barbarians, named after the ancient greek word “barbaros” , meant for foreigners, was a negative term referring to people lived beyond the civilization and were savage or evil. Located mainly on the east central Asian plateau, the mongols appeared in different areas, as in Russia and Vienna. Many still consider them mysterious, considering they didn’t have a written language, no permanent homes, no metal works, and not much artifacts to track them down. Only two Mongol texts have survived, which both show the violence that was implemented into their society. The mongols conquer was a messy process, people have said that the slaughter was so great that the streets were greasy with human flesh and fat. The mongols tried …show more content…
Their conquests were planned out, for the people to not expect them. In Ata-Malik Juvaini, by Genghis Khan, it states that the people of Nishapur (a city of Persia) knew that the mongols would try to conquer their city, so they prepared themselves. What they didn’t know was that the Mongols would arrive at night, when no one was prepared. The Perimeter of the city wall were all covered with mongols with rage and ready to fight. The goal of the mongols is primarily to conquer the city, but also to kill everybody, even the animals (Document E). In many reported deaths, caused by mongols, the statistics have arrived at the 2,000,000 mark. On the Carpini on Battle Tactics, it shows the way the mongols organized their fighting. The barbaric mongols would put false men on horses to make the enemy feel threatened due to the grand amount of the figures they saw, distinguished to be seen as real men. The soldiers who were from other nationalities were placed in front to meet the enemy first. Stronger men were dispatch at the right and left sides to surround the enemy and weaken the fortress. They would speak and ask for surrender into their hands; ask them to come out and kill them (Document