Mongols Videos

Part 5: The Strategic Battle
-The Mongols had very well planned war strategies. Almost every move they made was planned and along with their powerful weapons and cavalry helped them to defeat the enemy nearly every time. However, getting lured into a trap made one battle lost for an enemy tribe of Temujin's, the army nearly destroyed.

-Why would almost the whole army chase after the retreating people without at least one scout somewhere in the hills telling them if there were any traps? Were there no more troops left so they all went into the trap instead of fighting others?

Part 6: King of the Mongols
-Temujin let his blood brother (the general of the previous opposing army) have his last wish: a broken back. Temujin becomes the great King of the Mongols and is a very powerful leader. He feels threatend by China and therefore invades northern China with a vast army.
-Why did Temujin's blood brother want his back broken?

Part 7: Preparing to Fight
-China planted metal spikes to try to slow down the Mongols, but the Mongols got reinforced by mercenary troops. The Mongols made sure that China wouldn't forget them, being very violent and stealing all their riches. The Mongols stopped all supplies from getting into Beijing and started to make things like catapults in preparation to get past the Great Wall.
-Were the Chinese engineers that helped them from the mercenary armies they picked up along the way?

Part 8: The Big Invasion
-Inside Beijing, many starved to death and some survivors became cannibals. The Mongols made a strong attack with Chinese prisoners in the front line, but the Chinese were still more advanced when it came to the technology. Genghis and his army still got in, the Chinese general killing himself when the city started to fall quickly.
-I thought suicide was a Japan thing, did the Chinese warriors have a similar honorary suicide hara-kiri type thing?

Part 9: The Great Empire
-Genghis Khan started to build a permanent capital after Beijing was totally annihilated, wanting his people to benefit. A legal code started to develop; Genghis even stared to form trade routes. When Persians murdered Genghis's ambassador, he got a little mad and invaded Persia; eventually expanding his empire to 4x Alexander the Great and 2x of Rome.
-Why did the Persians kill the ambassador?

Part 10: Death of Genghis
-Genghis tried to gain immortality from a monk, but was unable to, and died in a final conquest to China (not even in battle). He died unable to conquer the world, and appointed his son Ogedei as the next khan. His sons later doubled the size of the empire.
-Ummm.....why was his burial site kept so secret?