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I agree that they were certainly a disciplined and flexible moving force. But I also think they were every bit as brutal as presented in books. I'm not the mos
by encoderer 12y ago
I agree that they were certainly a disciplined and flexible moving force. But I also think they were every bit as brutal as presented in books.
I'm not the most studied person on Mongol history but the impression I'm left with is that you can piece together accounts of the Mongol invasion in the texts of ancient russia, europe, china and the middle east. In russia they call them the huns, in europe there's a legend of "prestor john". All accounts share the same ruthlessness.
- skaevola 12y agoYou're mixing up your history. The Huns were an entirely different nomadic people (separated from the Mongol Empire by about a thousand years). Prestor John was a mythical Christian king who lived beyond the Islamic lands and whose land was full of wealth and treasures.
- encoderer 12y agoNo I'm not. The russians of the time called the mongols by the ancient name "huns." Or at least, those that wrote the history did. Prestor John was the mythical christian king who was purportedly laying waste to Islam from the east as Europe was attacking in the crusades from the west. Of course, at that time, it was Genghis Khan that was attacking the Islamic states from the west.