Compare And Contrast Great Empire And Mongol Empires

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Empires have existed and vanished but the wisdom they conveyed to the world remains in humanity. The term empire has a comprehensive characterization and some frequently misconstrue the word. To some, it means hostilities against other civilizations, for some it’s dictatorship and exploiting the underprivileged, and for some it’s about the Kings and emperors in palaces living in luxury and ruling over an upward conquest. An empire is a governmental structure wherein one state governs over another state, or a succession of federations. An empire, at its core, is the dominance of a state by a different one. This notion is at the nature of the shared use of the word ‘empire’ and is as ancient as state-constructing itself. This central state turned …show more content…

What if these two fought? Who would win? The Romans were tremendously disciplined, systematized, and well-resourced while the Mongols were enormously itinerant, adaptive, as well as ferocious. The Mongols and the Romans were both the most feared empires of their epochs and had pronounced governance but the Mongols could just bombard their opponents in the distance with one of the toughest bows produced like the Parthians. The Mongol Empire was an empire that instigated on the outside edges, and contrary to all probabilities, overpowered enemies much more controlling and populated than it. "The core of the Mongolian Empire was the Eurasian Steppe that stretches for many thousands of kilometers from the Khingan Mountains in the east to the Carpathians in the west. The Mongols were steppe warriors, and they were able to extend rapidly their influence over this whole region." (Turchin et. al, 2006) The Mongol Empire was the leading adjacent land empire, one that created fright into all its opponents. Founded by Temujin, the Mongol military leader, who supposed the title of Genghis Khan …show more content…

This was professed as a dangerous disrespect to the Great Khan and the succeeding Mongol retaliation totally worn-out Central Asia and terminated its Golden Age. Combined with the ensuing institution of European sea routes that circumvented the Silk Road, the Mongol incursions suggested the disaster of Central Asia as a significant region. "The regions inhabited by settled agriculturalists adjacent to the steppe were incorporated more slowly and to a lesser degree than the steppe. For example, the Russian principalities of the forest zone were not occupied by the steppe-dwellers, and were instead subjected to tribute. As a result, the Mongol Empire, based on the steppe, was much wider in the latitudinal rather than longitudinal direction." (Turchin et. al, 2006) Though there were only almost 2 million Mongols in the world, they consequently conquered most of Russia, Middle East, and China. Throughout their glory days, they suffered few difficulties excluding their disastrous incursion of Japan and the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260 C.E. against the Egyptian Mamluks. Notwithstanding their little population, the Mongols fielded huge militaries against their opponents because they brought their herds and sustained themselves through horse blood. "The Mongols fought in the manner of total war. The only result that mattered was

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