The strengths that have helped the rise of the Mongolian Empire would propel it to be the most successful Empire in the ancient world. They were able to control over 16% of the planet, which is almost five times the size of the Roman Empire at its height, and this was before the new world was discovered. This meant they had tremendous power over the world’s main trading system, While the other empires of ancient times are great and part of the reason the world is as advanced as it is today, without the unity of the Mongols’ empire, a vast amount of knowledge that is currently available for us would not have existed.
Before the Mongol Empire became an empire at all, the Mongolian people were just a lot of groups of nomads traveling around in Asia. Then an ambitious military leader in one of the tribes decided he wanted to bring together all of the nomadic peoples and create a giant nation united under…show more content… Generally seeming to accept people from elsewhere the problem arises when the new people don’t accept the religion of Greece. The acceptance levels of each city-state varied widely, and while some made foreigners into slaves, in other places they were willing to accept them as friends. This partially depends on how heavily the city-states relied upon trade. Many were in the south of the Mediterranean Sea, and so would need to be mos=re hospitable for traders from the east and south.
The Romans were less accepting than the Mongols when it came to new religions and are known for prosecuting Christians as well as Jews. Though the stories about people being fed to lions just because they are Christian are seemingly made up, as there are no records of any such events. The Romans c=would often force their opinions onto their conquered peoples. They would sometimes allow them to keep their own government but would place a Roman official in charge to keep an eye on the
