Resident of Balk Bukhara in 1220

The founder of the religion of Zoroastrianism was also killed by invadings. Mongols had negatively impacted his life because his city was destroyed, leaving people to have to rebuild and regain their city back, build new mosque to be able to practice their religion. The Mongols were more enemies than they were friends/alliances.

Resident of Balk Bukhara in 1220

My perspective of the Mongols is that they are horrible people who do no good. They did nothing but destroy the city.

A hatred was built upon the Mongols. They have not benefited him in any way.

Background of Balk Bukhara: Ali was buried in a secret place where no one knew. One day his followers worried somebody discovered where his body was, so they removed it from the place, put it on a camel and headed east. The camel eventually dropped and they buried Ali right there and the location was lost.

Later on, a man living in the area had a dream where Ali appeared to him and revealed the reburial site near the city of Balkh. It was confirmed, so a shrine was then built and a city founded.

Around 1220, Genghis Khan came and destroyed the Mosque and city.

Mongolian society was one of the least patriarchal societies because women were granted many rights. Women and men were closer to equal than many other societies at the time. For example, they were given the right to hold power, divorce, and own land.

Every time someone would not surrender, the Mongols would annihilate them and their people.

Mongols had the best organized army to ever exist, even though they were not the largest army. Women were more equal to men than ever so there was not much patriarchy. Mongols had also granted religious freedoms and tolerated other religions. As the Mongols expanded, these features led to the Mongols being the largest land empire in history.

The Mongols had a centralized power. They also used single inter-regional laws for all of their conquered territories making it easier to keep their people in check.

The Mongols participated in many acts of disagreement. As mongols expanded into the sedentary world, some were influenced by sedentary cultural values and realized if they wanted to expand and rule the territories they would need to adopt intuitions and practices of sedentary groups. Others were traditionalists, wanting to maintain traditional Mongolian pastoral-nomadic values.

The Mongols would absorb other cultures and ideas when they conquered a new place instead of tolerating different ideas and cultures.

The Mongol domains were split into four sectors; segment 1 (China, Mongolia, Korea, and Tibet) and segment 2 (Central Asia), which had many conflicts with each other.