The Mongols

   

The Mongols

  The Mongol Empire sounds very interesting, people keep telling me about the Mongols and their different types of foods, brown foods and white foods, the white food are more dairy products, although the Mongols did not usually drink fresh milk, they used it to make other dairy products such as yogurt and cheese. Brown foods were meats, the Mongols would slaughter there meat by laying the animal on its back and slicing down the middle of the body. This would keep all the blood in the body that was later disposed of, after the intestines were pulled out there were cleaned and used for make sausage.  I have learned that the Mongols traveled and stayed near field and plans because that’s were the animals would go for their food supply, The Mongols were very smart considering that they didn’t have to work for the animals for the animals found their own food supply and the Mongols followed.

I have also heard that they invade many towns and villages from time to time; they Mongols have a very strong empire and military. This makes me worry about how they will think about me, will they kill me for coming to them? Over all I expect many battles to happen when I am with them.

     All the things I have heard were not true, I am here know traveling with the Mongols; they were actually really nice people. They have well trading skills which other people should have. Because they are Nomads trading is a highly used skill in their everyday life. They do not only trade materialistic items but they trade their skills as well. In fact all merchants under the Mongols rule had a higher status than the traditional Chinese merchant. The Mongols always liked trade. Because they have a nomadic way of life caused them to realize how important trade is, unlike the Chinese, they had a positive attitude toward merchants and trade.

     I believe that the Mongols are a culture that hasn't been studied enough by today’s people.

The Mongols are such interesting people, from their ways of conquering other empires to their styles and ways of trade. There are multiple views on how to look at the Mongols; You could look at them like the emperors were Alexander the great, People who conquered towns and villages just to conquer them to show them that you are more powerful than their empire. Then again you could look at them on a complete opposite hand, that they were people of trade that were living off the land and that only wanted to help people. Over all the 21^st century should study the Mongols more than we are, it would help to understand other cultures ways of trade and conquering.

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