During the Tang and Song dynasty, from 1209 to 1279, China was the Mongols primary target. Starting from the north their conquest was brutal, but then in the south the Mongols were benevolent enough that the natives thought that they gained the Mandate of Heaven. They spared the population instead of wrecking a mass genocide on China because of the Mongols wanted to gain much of their wealth. The …show more content…
Their rule starting from 1258, marking the siege of Baghdad and the end of the Abbasid dynasty. Despite, the human mass murder of more than two thousand people during the siege of Baghdad and the agricultural devastations, it has economically boosted Persia with their wants of wine and silk. Over time the Mongols converted into Islam under the command of Ghazan. With the spread of Islam throughout the Mongol empire, it helped with the movement of people, commerce, and ideas. Neither China nor Christian Russia has experienced this widespread conversion that Persia had. The Muslim Turks, who were already there in the Middle East, allied with the Mongols thus preventing any Anti-Islamic movement from coming to the Middle East. After their conversion during Ghazan’s reign the Mongols attempt to repair the damages of earlier conquest such as rebuilding their cities and their irrigation system. As time went on the Mongols either assimilated within the land they conquered by abandoning their nomadic ways or marrying the locals. In a way they affected their political system too by changed the name caliphate to sultan when they