During the process of this trial not only did I have fun acting with the class, but also I thought it helped us learn about the mongols more and the people that interacted with them.
I felt the two witnesses on the other side of the case that presented the most convincing evidence were Ryota who played the Caliph of Baghdad and Victoria who played a Chinese Confucian scholar.
Ryota presented specific arguments for why the Mongols were uncivilized in the attack of his city. He said that during the sacking, the Mongols destroyed many of the city’s most valuable possessions and murdered many of the innocent citizens that inhabited it. These statements were true. According to accounts the Grand Library of Baghdad that contained numerous important books and historical documents, along with the philosophers, scholars, and scientists who wrote them. Different sources estimate that the deaths totaled in the hundred thousands that included women and children. As Ryota explained many times, the Mongols made the Caliph of Baghdad watch his own citizens murdered, all but one of his sons were murdered, and he was rolled up in a rug and then trampled …show more content…
They were no worse than many groups who preceded them and followed them in history. They killed in some ways that were very brutal and violent, but there were definitely much worse ways that could have been executed. In fact, Genghis Khan destroyed smaller cities and ones that mattered less in order to set examples and scare the bigger and more important ones into surrender. This way less people died and the knowledge and wealth of bigger cities were destroyed less often. Not to mention many of the cities that were sacked and destroyed did not meet their fate because the Mongols were barbaric morons. Most of the time, the city refused to surrender to them after being given a chance and then they took