Genghis Khan Dbq Essay

Genghis Khan has been accused of multiple crimes over the years, many of which forever affect civilization as we know it. These charges include hatred for eurasian societies and ineffective organization and administration of conquered territories. While accusations such as slaughter of innocents stand true, the two accusations mentioned earlier are false beyond a shadow of a doubt when factual evidence is brought up.

“Taking Control” by Timothy May highlights how Mongolian civilization relied heavily on effectively organizing and managing conquered territories. Mongols never denied the fact that their civilization was small compared to others before the invasions that were conquered by the Mongols under Genghis Khan. By taking in artesians,

The research of Columbia University shows that the Mongolian invasion of northern china during the Xia and Jin dynasties were done because North China stopped trading with Mongolia, resulting in the possible collapse of Mongolian society altogether, forcing the Mongols to invade China civilizations to survive. (Document 1) This is also evidenced by research from MacKenzie and Curran, which shows that when Mongolia invaded Russia, they nurtured Russia into a mature state under their leadership, instead of destroying it. Under Mongol control, Russia was safe from possible conquering, and were given secure commercial and cultural relations with the Orient. (Document

In Duane Damon’s piece “From Genghis to Kublai” (Doc 2), he says that the Mongols were well organized in their attacks and that Kublai Khan set his sights on the well defended Chinese empire. With his envisionment of the takeover of that empire, Kublai came up with more tactics to breach the empire walls with catapults. The Mongols soon applied this as one of their techniques along with the greater force in large numbers than ever accounted in history. Another document that could be used for this subject of mass slaughter is the piece “Travels” by Marco Polo that were based on his travels in the late 1200’s (Doc 7). In this document, Polo describes the Mongols as fearless and merciless warriors. They always obeyed orders and were trained under conditions that would only toughen them up and make them stronger mentally and physically. For example, Polo says that they were trained to stay on the backs of their horses for 2 days and 2 nights straight no matter what. They were sturdy and strong warriors that knew no limits and showed no mercy for their targets/enemies. With these reasons stated, the Mongols were viewed as a force to not be reckoned with, and if anyone dared to stand in their way, they were to be put out with the required force necessary or even more at their own