Mongols Barbaric Dbq Analysis

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Although the ways the Mongols dealt with war and prisoners were barbaric, their society and way of life was extremely civilized. For example, the Mongols buried prisoners alive, which was extremely barbaric. Document four states “They severed the heads of the slain from their bodies and heaped them up in piles, keeping those of the men separate from those of the women and children.” This act was also extremely barbaric.

The society and the way of life of the Mongols was civilized, the opposite of how they conquered. Their postal service is just one example their sophisticated civilization. When a messenger would set out on a trail with information he would only have to ride his horse 25 miles until he would reach a post, where fresh horses

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