Mongols Barbaric Dbq Analysis

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How barbaric were the Mongols? Im 13th century CE, the Mongols created the largest empire in history. The Mongols were across Asia, the Middle-East, and Eastern Europe. They even extended from Korea to Poland and from Vietnam to Syria. The world called them “Barbarians,” but in ancient Greece they called them “Barbaros” which were meant foreigners. The Mongols are barbaric because they are strategic, brutal, and they are conquers.

The Mongols are barbaric because they are strategic with their plan of attack. In document 3 it states that “When they are to join battle, they draw all the battles lives just as they are (about) to fight.” They send people a group of people of other nationalities to meet with the enemy head-on and these people

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