The Success And Failure Of Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire symbolizes acceptance, leadership, and skilled people. This empire represented united conquests that worked to have a peaceful confrontation towards conquests but also had violent wars. This empire expanded from the east to the west and included regions of the Middle East and Central Asia. This empire may have been included in the book is because of its rapid expansion in Asia and its successful leaders that brought the empire foreign commerce, religions, cultures, and education from vast areas that made it diverse.

The success of the Mongol empire began with the great leader known as Genghis Khan, who brought a success for the military and was an implausible political leader. He also got rid of the rule of blood relation that intended loyalty but was then changed to a military system. This civilization had an effective system of trade routes and commercialization. The peace that was represented throughout the empire helped expand it and was mainly the “glue” that helped sustain the empire for so long. The empire soon became to decline and become successful after the death of Genghis Khan and Mongke's death as other leaders could not fully live up to the same success that Khan and Mongke had brought. Most leaders were unskillful and efficient, they also had corruptions, revolts, and assassinations that made the empire weaken and break apart. The pivotal point of failure were the revolts that reduced the power of the empire and allowed it to be easily conquered.

Due to the vast region of the empire there were many groups of people part of the Mongolian empire. There were people from the Middle East region, parts of Western Europe, it bordered north of Russia, and China. These people lived a nomadic lifestyle and agriculture influenced this. There was not really a division between people with classes, people had different jobs and were skilled in different subjects. There were merchants, diplomats, and religious thinkers.

There was freedom in religion but one religion was mainly followed which was Buddhism and unified people together through the following of this belief. I do not think this empire could exist today due to its responses towards other conquests. It had a large amount of violence and abrupt wars and conflicts that did not help the empire strive at times. Also, the conflicts created made it difficult to have peace which would not be appropriate during this century as countries should work as a unified system and not rebel against each other resulting in destruction.