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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 2378464" data-attributes="member: 1125">Your the second one to say the Mongols left nothing and that isn't true. It is known that the Great Khan left a series of Laws (the Yassa) and a communications network (the original pony express) that ensured peace and protected trade across the empire. A favourite analogy used at the time was that "a young girl could walk across the empire carrying a bag of gold and never need to fear "The mongols encouraged trade and allowed the introduction of trade goods like pasta (into both Asia and the West), the Kite and porcelain china. More importantly their tolerance of other cultures and religions allowed the cross polination of ideas over a good portion of the earths surface. They (via the Golden Horde) were also responsible for unifying Russia and the Moghuls who entered India claim descent from them alsoWhat also needs to be remembered is that the Mongols we know from the Horde are not the original Mongols of the Steppes. Genghis made it explicit that his mission was to unify all peoples "who live in tents" - which he did offering all the various tribes the rightto become Mongols (or die) - it was thus he who created a unified people which we now recognise as the Mongols</blockquote>