Were The Mongols Barbaric

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How Barbaric Were The Barbarians

Have you asked questions about the Mongols? Such as, what they accomplished or if they were crazy or if their battle tactics were useful or not. The big question is if the Mongols were barbaric or not. In my opinion, the Mongols were not barbaric because they were organized, they could conquer land, and their battle tactics were the best at the time. Firstly, the Mongols were organized because their leader, Genghis Khan had one person being in command of 100 guys which made it way more organized. He also said in battle if anyone ran away from war then the whole group would get executed or if a couple of people were the only ones to attack then everyone besides those people would be executed. So that

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