> The mongols weren't good. They were empire builders. But they didn't set out to exterminate people. Extermination wasn't their goal, but IIRC they had a poli

> The mongols weren't good. They were empire builders. But they didn't set out to exterminate people. Extermination wasn't their goal, but IIRC they had a policy of exterminating any who resisted them, as a lesson to others. That wasn't standard policy for all empire builders.