Mongols Being Barbaric Dbq Essay

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In the 13th century, a small tribe from the steppes of Central Asia had conquered most of the known world at the time. Mongols rode on the back of horses, as they swept most of Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. It has never been seen before at the time, they had even taken over more land than Alexander the Great, the mongols taking 4,860,000 square miles of land. (Document 1). The mongols were fearless warriors who took over people's land yet they weren't as barbaric as they seem. They had laws that were written well and had reasonable laws for everyone, except women were treated differently. Yet in today's society, women are treated differently. How Barbaric were the Mongols? The Mongols being barbaric still had things that didn’t make them as barbaric as they seem.
The mongols have taken over city after city and killed so many innocent people, yet can they be barbaric for killing people. A reasonable answer would be,”Yes” as killing someone isn’t right. The mongols go overboard, to execute their rivals and dig them upside down.(Document 5) This doesn’t compare to what the us has done. The U.s Launched the “Little Boy” in 1945 killing 80,000 humans and later with radiation killed more. People were damaged by the radiation and couldn’t live in hiroshima as they could be hurt by the
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As the Mongols conquered over china all the way to persia a lot of diversity arose from the conquering of the cities. Since currency was mixed in between the Mongols and the Natives they had to develop a diversified economic system. (Document 6). Another way the mongols had significant contributions on culture was when they saw the persians art. The ilkhanids were partons toward the art of persians. (Document 6) Although the Mongols had conquered the persians and the chinese, they still admired some of their arts and ways of

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