Thesis: At times, the Mongols could be described as barbaric, but in other areas the Mongols could be described as a very well organized and tolerant people, but they were never barbaric or non barbaric in any area such as war. In war there were areas where they would be barbaric but they had other qualities that made their armies’ non barbaric such as their organization.

Mongol Military: Most certainly, most people would say that warfare is one of the most barbaric aspects of the Mongols but really it also had some none barbaric traits such as an organized military as claimed in the video, Genghis Khan, which also mentioned that Genghis also selected his generals by skill and ability rather than birthright. But a person could fairly claim that the Mongols were barbaric in other aspects of war such as an example from Document 5 which shows the Mongols executing prisoners in very horrifying and gruesome ways such as can shot by arrows in close range and …show more content…
The textbook also stated that the Mongols were very tolerant of the people they conquered belief systems, and allowed them to practice any religion they wanted to practice, even assimilating it into their own culture. The text also mentions the safe travel of ideas such as religion through the Mongol empire as a person could safely travel from the Middle East to China without getting robbed or captured. Document 9 states that the Mongols believed that there was on god and that other religions were just different ways to worship the same entity or being. Document 10 states something that could be considered intolerant and therefore barbaric which is that the Mongols allowed for a person to have as many wives as they can, meaning multiple wives which could be considered going against any religion that believes a man could only have one