The Battle Of The Mongol Empire - 1418 Words

Patrick Mungovan History - Green Block Ms. Katz 12/23/14 Strategic Superiority Writing Goals: Evidence effectively analyzed to connect to central claim at least two times per paragraph All paragraphs effectively connected with transitions My claim is proven using evidence and analysis During the 13th and 14th centuries there existed the largest contiguous land empire in world history. This was the Mongol Empire, ruled by the military mastermind Genghis Khan and his succession of family members. The Mongol army, consisting of only 30,000 core horsemen and a fluctuating number of footsoldiers, were the most feared warriors at that time and some of the most feared ever. A historian from Columbia states on page 18 of the reader that the†¦show more content†¦This bond between the leaders and the ordinary troops made the complicated battle plans much easier to carry out, as there was more understanding between the levels of the military. These similarities though ended with food and clothing. There was a rigid hierarchy in place in the Mongol army. This hierarchy and submission to the leaders made â€Å" elaborate tactics of encirclement, retreat, and deception [possible in battle]†. (525) This submission created by strong leadership and a full unit d eath penalty in the case of a deserter enabled the mongols to create new schemes of attack and new battle plans, without worrying that their men were not competent or too uncooperative to carry out their orders. The Mongol’s instillment of fear and submissiveness into their troops through strong leadership gave the Mongol army a superior edge. This leadership allowed the Mongols to carry out their new battle tactics. The Mongol leaders were instrumental in the conception and execution of one of the tribe’s greatest achievements, their war tactics. The Mongols war tactics were some of the most novel thinking of the time, great creativity was put into them, and out came some of the most brilliant attacks ever dreamt up, and, when combined with the use of horses and adaptations of the bow and arrow, they spawned the largest