The Mongols: How Barbaric Were the “ Barbarians”?
Genghis Khan and the Mongols gave birth to an empire that would spread death and destruction everywhere they stepped, by means of conquest, the way they employed battle tactics and, their way of culture inside their empire.
The Mongol empire ,brutally and mercilessly, conquered anyone who surrounded them as they pleased. In the chart titled Size of World Conquests we can see how much the Mongols expanded their empire. Genghis Khan and his armies covered more than 4,800,000 square miles. Robert Marshall, in Storm from the East, From Genghis Khan to Kubilai Khan, gives two statistics comparing China before Mongol conquest, and after Mongol conquest. The first shows a census taken ,by the Chin …show more content…
The Franciscan emissary named John of Plano Carpini had multiple accounts of these tactics. He describes them in a compendium of letters and narratives titled The Mongol Mission as follows, “ If the position of the fortress allows it, they surround it, sometimes even fencing it round so no one can enter or leave. They make a strong attack with engines ( catapults fro slinging large stones ) and arrows and they do not leave off fighting by day or by night, so that those in the fortress get no sleep; If they cannot capture it in this way they throw Greek fire (napalm); sometimes they even take the fat of people they kill and, melting it, throw it ( catapult ) it on to the houses,”. In another account he mentions that “ When they are in battle, if one or two or three or even more out of a group of ten run away, all are put to death; … In a word, unless they retreat in a body, all who take flight are put to death.”. Robert Marshall Further explains their military duties in Storm from the East, From Genghis Khan to Kubilai Khan as follows, “ All men over the age of fourteen were expected to undertake military duty.”. He also clarifies how soldiers wore silk under their armor to prevent arrows or other projectiles from piercing them. Finally, a Persian manuscript titled The Shah Namah, or The Book of Kings, portrays the execution of a prisoner by a Mongol soldier, while other prisoners get buried alive upside
Genghis Khan and the Mongols gave birth to an empire that would spread death and destruction everywhere they stepped, by means of conquest, the way they employed battle tactics and, their way of culture inside their empire.
The Mongol empire ,brutally and mercilessly, conquered anyone who surrounded them as they pleased. In the chart titled Size of World Conquests we can see how much the Mongols expanded their empire. Genghis Khan and his armies covered more than 4,800,000 square miles. Robert Marshall, in Storm from the East, From Genghis Khan to Kubilai Khan, gives two statistics comparing China before Mongol conquest, and after Mongol conquest. The first shows a census taken ,by the Chin …show more content…
The Franciscan emissary named John of Plano Carpini had multiple accounts of these tactics. He describes them in a compendium of letters and narratives titled The Mongol Mission as follows, “ If the position of the fortress allows it, they surround it, sometimes even fencing it round so no one can enter or leave. They make a strong attack with engines ( catapults fro slinging large stones ) and arrows and they do not leave off fighting by day or by night, so that those in the fortress get no sleep; If they cannot capture it in this way they throw Greek fire (napalm); sometimes they even take the fat of people they kill and, melting it, throw it ( catapult ) it on to the houses,”. In another account he mentions that “ When they are in battle, if one or two or three or even more out of a group of ten run away, all are put to death; … In a word, unless they retreat in a body, all who take flight are put to death.”. Robert Marshall Further explains their military duties in Storm from the East, From Genghis Khan to Kubilai Khan as follows, “ All men over the age of fourteen were expected to undertake military duty.”. He also clarifies how soldiers wore silk under their armor to prevent arrows or other projectiles from piercing them. Finally, a Persian manuscript titled The Shah Namah, or The Book of Kings, portrays the execution of a prisoner by a Mongol soldier, while other prisoners get buried alive upside