Mongols Dbq Analysis

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Have you ever wanted to know how the Mongols treated others? Well I have. They organized their army in groups, left marks of what they did, and they took the men and the women to help them against others. The Mongols are sometimes peaceable but they are primarily brutal. The Mongols organized the army by groups. They had groups of ten on top of ten. If groups ran off they would get killed. They even killed people that did not run off if some of the group did. Document 2 say “ army should be organized in ways that ten men should beset one man and he is called a captain of ten,” and so on. Document 2 also says “When in battle, if one or even more out of a group of ten run away, all are put to death,” and so on. The Mongols leave evidence behind

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