Mongols

A detailed Summary of Mongols

Many documents give way to the Mongols way of life, their social order, and their war tactics. Most of the people whom them conquered saw them only as a ruthless and cruel society, whereas, the people living and working within the empire told of much tolerance and prosperity. The Mongols, whether seen as vicious conquerors or as a vast empire with much cultural diversity, caused many to seem them in different ways.

In both the works of Marco Polo and Rashid al-Din the view of the Mongols was that they should be held in great esteem and that they had a great and vast empire. Marco Polo specifically talked of the great amounts of riches held within the kingdom. "The quantity and richness of the plate..." (Marco Polo) is just an example of how lavishly he described the region and its goods. He spoke of how efficient the road systems were and how easy travel was on them. The fact, though is, he probably had a slightly bias opinion because he was a high-ranking official of the Mongol court and it would look good for him to have writing of the wonders of the empire. The same bias is held true for Rashid al-Din who was a Persian historian but who was also a high official. He wrote about Chinggis Khan's son, Ogedei

The last group of opinions of the Mongol's empire comes from William of Rubruck and Juvaini. Where, William of Rubruck had both good and bad thoughts on the empire. He really didn't have much of an opinion prior to his journey, except for the fact that they were different than his culture but he didn't really have a set opinion before he set out to find out more about them. Juvaini probably should have had a more positive bias towards the empire because of his position within it, but seemed to state both the good and the bad that he saw. Juvaini seemed to praise Chinggis Khan yet not the people as a whole. He stated how Chinggis Khan wasn't bigotry, but also how the people were in misconduct before he came to power. William of Rubruck mostly focused on the relation ship between the genders in the Mongol society. He seemed to believe that the women probably had it worse off because they were sold into their marriages, and were made to tend to the wagons, children, animals, sew and cook. He though, elude to the fact that the men did have jobs also, but it was made clear that the women probably had more tasks than the men. He also was not full of praise for their marriages. In one account he stated, "...there is also to be found among them the shameful practice whereby a son sometimes marries all his father's wives except his own mother." Neither one

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