Around 1200, a Mongol clan leader named Temujin had made up his mind to unify Mongols under his leadership. In 1206, he accepted the title of Genghis Khan. He established the Mongol Empire from China to Poland, and he also created the Pax Mongolica. After his death in 1227, his successors extended his ambition to widen the territory. After that, the Mongols had divided their huge empire into four khanates. The outside world often called the Mongols "barbarians". Barbarians were defined as people who are perceived to be uncivilized. The Mongols were not barbaric due to their strong military, laws and religious tolerance they established and accepted, and also their well-organized government.
First of all, the army system that Genghis Khan established as the Mongols were united proved that the Mongols weren't barbarians. All men over the age of fourteen should join the military, except priests and physicians. They also knew how to use silk as a tool to protect themselves from injury in warfare (Document 2). The brilliant organizer, Genghis Kahn commanded that the army should be organized in a way that ten soldiers were put into a group and each group had one captain. Ten of these groups become a hundred and had another captain and over ten captains of a thousand is one man. Two of these three chiefs were the commander of the whole army. When they were in battle, if anyone in the group fled away, the rest of them will be put to death (Document 3). Moreover, the Mongols also had tactics while they were in wars. According to the advanced strategy, he made figures of men and set them on horses, and this gave the enemies an impression that there were lots of people that were ready to fight assembled there. Thus, as Genghis Khan had made the rules, the Mongols must follow the rules, barbarians didn't have rules, so as a result this proved that the Mongols weren't barbarians.
The religious tolerance and the laws that the Mongols rulers had set also lead to a result that the Mongols weren't barbarians.
