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Perhaps the Mongols greatest accomplishment was the Yuan dynasty in China.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHEMPIRE/YUAN.HTM
Thanks for link Mynok. Some new information in there for me. I did have to disagree with this statement though.
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They were a pastoral and tribal people that did not really seem to be of any consequence to neighboring peoples.
perhaps what the other meant was that they did not interact or engage much in trade, but the Mongols, along with the Tar Tars were a major reason for the Great Wall to be built.
I find the Mongols a bit of an enigma. A people living on the wasted steppes of east central asia they had virtually nothing, no resources, no wealth and no way to earn much of a living, yet they created the largest empire in history. They could be the most brutal of adversaries, yet they did not often seek out war, nor did they shy from it. They were a people that, as a general rule, were more interested in trade than war.
Timogen was perhaps more ruthless than Gengis, but everywhere he conquered he killed many of the people, but saved all the scholars and artisans and brought them back to his capital of Samarkand making it one of the great places of enlightenment of its time.
Its almost as if (and maybe this is so) they were a people that had an elevated appreciation for beauty exactly because they were a people that before had nothing and no future.
< Message edited by niceguy2005 -- 11/22/2006 7:33:35 AM >
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