Why were the Mongols so effective?

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Why were the Mongols so effective?발음듣기

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[Instructor] The question before us today is: why were Mongols so effective?발음듣기

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How did they manage to take an area, starting around here and over the course of 20 years during the reign of Genghis Khan, from about 1206 to 1227, expand from this little part of Siberia just south of Lake Baikal, all the way into Central Asia?발음듣기

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This is what the Mongol Empire looked like in 1206, and this is what it looked like in 1279.발음듣기

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This here is Genghis-Khan time and this here is around the reign of Kublai Khan.발음듣기

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What enables a spread of territory on this scale in such a short time?발음듣기

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The Mongols were not a centralized state.발음듣기

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They weren't a centralized empire.발음듣기

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They were a band of traveling horsemen.발음듣기

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How did they end up taking this much land?발음듣기

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The story of the Mongols is a story of a non-state actor overcoming state actors of a decentralized power becoming centralized eventually.발음듣기

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What I wanna talk about in this video is three reasons why the Mongols were so effective in beating established empires.발음듣기

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And then we're gonna talk about some of those follow-on effects.발음듣기

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Reason one why the Mongols were so effective was planning, what we might call logistics.발음듣기

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When Genghis Kahn lemme pull up a picture of good ol' Genghis when Genghis was declared Emperor or Great Khan, of the Mongols in 1206, one of the first things he did was reformat the army.발음듣기

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He swept away tribal affiliations and favoritism.발음듣기

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If you were good, you got to have a higher position; if you were bad, you didn't.발음듣기

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This meant that ordinary people within the Mongol army felt that they could have a measure of social mobility if they performed especially well in the army.발음듣기

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This made them very committed and very loyal.발음듣기

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Reason number two: the Mongols were extremely adaptable.발음듣기

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We're talking about a group of horsemen here.발음듣기

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These are the Mongols attacking a group of Chinese soldiers.발음듣기

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What they were used to was mounted combat against mounted opponents.발음듣기

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What they weren't used to was attacking major cities and holding them or even trying to get major cities to break.발음듣기

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But what the adaptability of the Mongol army meant was that as they conquered new territories and as they fought and won.발음듣기

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And lost in various regions of Asia, so, for example as they started conquering the Western Xia here they learned siegecraft.발음듣기

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And that's the art of attacking walled cities and castles.발음듣기

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It's a completely different style of combat.발음듣기

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What it involves is sitting outside of a city and waiting to starve out the inhabitants.발음듣기

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Part of it involves using these things called siege engines.발음듣기

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This here is a kind of catapult.발음듣기

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You can see here the rocks.발음듣기

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The Mongols are waiting with their archers here.발음듣기

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The opponents have arrows, as well but they're flinging rocks into the city in order to force a surrender.발음듣기

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The Mongols didn't really have this technology or these tactics when they began their military campaigns.발음듣기

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But as they rolled through Central Asia they picked it up and then they continued to use those tactics as they swept westward.발음듣기

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Now, the third reason that the Mongols were so effective is because they were terrifying.발음듣기

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Even though they mastered siege warfare in the beginning at least, the Mongols were not prepared to hold a city once they had conquered it.발음듣기

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There are stories, especially from the conquest of the Western Xia and the Northern Song and the Khwarazmian Empire over here that tell of the Mongols winning a battle and then sweeping in and murdering everyone.발음듣기

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Just pulling plunder from corpses and just looting the entire city and leaving nothing standing.발음듣기

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Because the Mongols weren't especially interested at least early, we're talking about the period of Genghis Khan's life here, so, 1200s to 1220s they weren't especially interested in governing.발음듣기

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They wanted to hold territory, and get tribute and get money, but they weren't especially interested in running an empire.발음듣기

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It actually made more sense to them to slaughter everybody and take your things.발음듣기

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Now, it got to the point that this reputation for fearsomeness got so powerful that some cities would just give up and surrender the moment the Mongols arrived.발음듣기

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Those are the three main reasons that comprise Mongol effectiveness against settled states.발음듣기

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They were very good at planning.발음듣기

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Everybody rode in their armies.발음듣기

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They could move very quickly.발음듣기

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The Mongols were extremely adaptable.발음듣기

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Every time they lost, they learned something from the people they lost to, and that meant that they picked up new technologies like siege warfare.발음듣기

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And they were absolutely terrifying.발음듣기

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Since, initially, the Mongols didn't know what they were gonna do with a conquered city besides loot it they just killed everybody.발음듣기

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And that reputation really allowed them to conquer a lot of land very quickly.발음듣기

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And so we see out of the Mongol conquest there are many follow-on effects, but one of the chief ones is something called the Pax Mongolica, the Mongolian Peace.발음듣기

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If that phrasing looks familiar to you it's because it's similar to the Roman Peace the Pax Romana; and the Chinese Peace the Pax Sinica of the First Century CE.발음듣기

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This is 1100 years later, but the same principle applies.발음듣기

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What happened was, with all of this territory conquered under one ruling power, it became safe to travel from one end of the empire to the other.발음듣기

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Indeed, this is exactly what Marco Polo did when he set off from Venice, and made his way, eventually, to Beijing.발음듣기

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That would've been around this time.발음듣기

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Marco Polo's book, The Book of the Marvels of the World was published in 1300.발음듣기

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Marco Polo was this Venetian trader and adventurer who traveled extensively throughout Asia.발음듣기

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That's one result of the Mongol conquests is this Mongolian Peace.발음듣기

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I should say that this Mongolian Peace came at a terrible price.발음듣기

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When we were talking about that terror of the Mongols that's a for-real thing.발음듣기

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They murdered millions of people.발음듣기

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But what would come after the Mongol Conquest as a result of this peace would end up killing even more people than the Mongol Conquest itself.발음듣기

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This pacified region, this Mongolian Peace led to increased trade throughout East Asia and reconnecting it to Eurasia and the Arab States.발음듣기

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That would result in the exchanges of new ideas and new technologies and new agricultural techniques.발음듣기

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But, as trade always does it also results in the exchange of diseases.발음듣기

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And so, out of the Mongol homeland, in fact comes this illness called the Black Plague or Bubonic Plague.발음듣기

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Because of the stability of trade that had been established by the Mongol Peace it makes it so much easier for this illness to sweep across Asia and Europe, killing even more people than even Genghis Khan could've achieved during his lifetime.발음듣기

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