Hahaha wow was this a great and entertaining question to bring up with my family during Thanksgiving dinner. At first my parents just kind of looked at me in a strange way, like really you wanna discuss school on vacation but okay. We had an interesting conversation about it because at first my parents and I were on the fence about whether or not the Mongols really deserve to be more respected than what they were and still are. My obvious argument was that if we didn't appreciate them for something we wouldn't have named a country after them. They were unique in the sense that their force was unbeatable and yet they were able to persuade different groups of people in the different regions they conquered to change their normal day activities by improving on their technical skills. The Mongols obtained many skills, tricks and knowledge from the lands they conquered and went around spreading the ideas and perspectives of those people. So yes they do deserve to have more respect and acknowledgment for the fact that they didn't take credit for the ideas they spread. It was a strange thought before our discussion in class and with my family because before that I, like most people, would say that they didn't deserve respect for the horror they caused when taking over other lands and communities. But to be very honest people like the Conquistadors were also very vicious with how they conquered people but because history is written from the European point of view it will always be biased. The Europeans chose not to discuss the bad the Conquistadors did just the good but felt the need to point out all the flaws of the Mongols, which wasn't fair to a group of people who did terrorize but at the same time advanced many communities.
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