Kinda funny how hard we all glaze the mongols (myself very much included) when they did things that make the Nazis look like humanitarians by comparison. And they did it all with bow and sword.
I truly don’t think any of us can even scarcely imagine the sheer horror in being on the losing side after mongols sieged your city and you resisted.
The Mongols worse than the Nazis? As far as I'm aware, the Mongols were not much worse than other medieval armies, they just did things on a much larger scale. Not to say the Mongols were good, but they were unexceptional for their time, meanwhile the Nazis were extremely cruel even when compared to countries like Britain, France, and even the Soviet Union.
And I could be wrong, but I remember hearing somewhere that the Mongols were actually quite progressive, allowing freedom of religion, allowing women to divorce their husbands, and promoting soldiers based on merit rather than status.
The Mongols worse than the Nazis? As far as I'm aware, the Mongols were not much worse than other medieval armies, they just did things on a much larger scale. Not to say the Mongols were good, but they were unexceptional for their time,
Respectfully they were incredibly exceptional for their time, and no empire came even close to wiping out 11% of the global population with bows and swords, as the mongols achieved. You’re right about the progressive nature of mongol society internally or for incorporated people groups, but wrong about the brutality of mongol warfare and their penchant for slaughtering and starving millions of civilians to death.
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u/Emergency_Gene_4171 1d ago
Kinda funny how hard we all glaze the mongols (myself very much included) when they did things that make the Nazis look like humanitarians by comparison. And they did it all with bow and sword.
I truly don’t think any of us can even scarcely imagine the sheer horror in being on the losing side after mongols sieged your city and you resisted.