William Rubrick: He viewed the Mongols as civilized by the way he describes the palace as “abundant” and he also worked with the Mongols to promote Christianity. purpose of promoting conversion to Christianity and gauging support of the Mongols for Crusades on behalf of King Louis IX.
William Rubrick: He was particularly interested in the Nestorian Christians. He describes generally with great precision Mongol traditional culture, many features of which have survived amongst the herders one may observe today in inner Asia.
William Rubrick: His roundtrip journey lasted the better part of three years. William had the distinction of being the first European to visit the Mongol capital of Karakorum on the Orkhon River and return to write about it.
He provides a unique description of the Khan's palace there and abundant detail about the individuals of various ethnicities and religions whom he encountered.
Weatherford states that ‘conservative scholars place the number of dead from Genghis Khan’s invasion of central Asia at 15 million within five years’, however ‘even this more modest total…would require that each Mongol kill more than a hundred people’.
The reputation of the Mongols for slaughter spread even farther than their actual Conquest.based on Persian, Chinese, Russian, and other accounts of the speed and ruthlessness with which the Mongols carved out the largest contiguous land empire in world history,