To show their submission, some towns offered food and provisions to the Mongols, and in exchange, Khan's force guaranteed them protection. In cities where the Mongols were forced to conquer by force, Khan divided the survivors by profession and drafted the few who were literate and anyone who could speak various languages. Those who had been the city's most rich and powerful were killed instantly. Khan and his army pushed further and further into the empire. The caliph in Baghdad was hostile toward the sultan and supported Genghis Khan, sending him a
‘How far do you agree that the Bolsheviks won the civil war because they controlled more people and had access to more weapons?’ Despite the diverse forces massed against the red army, the experience of the white leaders and the precarious position of Lenin, the communists still managed to gain victory in the Civil War of 1918-1921. The fact that the Bolsheviks had control of the heartland and therefore factories and supplies was an advantage to them. But on the other hand there were other factors such as good leadership, weak opposition and terror that helped just as much. I believe that the Bolsheviks controlling more people and having access to more weapons was a key factor in them winning the war. They controlled the industrial heart of Russia, which included Petrograd and Moscow, this also meant they had control of all the factories, and the railway lines.
However, the Islamic States and Mongol khanates were similar in their battles of who would become ruler. After the death of Caliph Harun-al-Rashid, his two sons began to fight for the throne. This caused a fourth civil war. After the death of Genghis Khan his four sons continued the expansion. After the death of Ogedei, whom was the second Great Khan, there was a great dispute over who would become the next successor.
Michelle Huang November 24, 2014 AP World History Shannon Period 6 Mongol Occupation of Russia DBQ The Mongols were known for their ruthlessness. They were very determined to conquer Russia and the Mongol horde proved to be unstoppable. However, although callous and ferocious, the Mongols were also known to be somewhat merciful as well, treating everyone as equal and blessing those who followed them. The harshness and brutality of the Mongol army is prominent in documents 1, 3 and 5. Document 1 articulates the structure of the army that Genghis Khan ordained.
The Reds controlled high industry areas which allowed them to stop the enemy receiving supplies as well as supplying the Bolshevik army with plenty of munitions. Another key point as to why the Reds won is that the army was controlled by Trotsky who organised it in a very strict, but effective way. The Whites however, were inefficient, lacked unity within their army and therefore fought as separate detachments; they lacked a true leader and were too dependent on supplies from abroad, which rarely arrived with sufficient quantities or in the right location. In short, the Whites were unlikely to ever destroy the Reds exceptional army due to their many weaknesses in comparison to the Reds strengths. Source A would agree with the idea that the Whites were weak, which is why the Reds won the civil war.
There were many features which led to the red army victory in the Civil war. Trotsky, the red army leader was appointed in 1918 as commisionar for war, as at this point the red army was at the point of disintergration. A geographical factor helped the red army win as it was reorganised by Trotsky to be a single, unified command that held the centrel areas such as petrograd and Moscow. The old Tsar's rifles and ammunition fell into Bolshevik hands. However, the white army was scattered in smaller groups as often the Bolsheviks vastly outnumbered the whites.
Introduction From the first explosion of Mongol military might from the steppes of central Asia in the early decades of the 13th century to the death of Timur in 1405, the nomads of central Asia made a last, stunning return to center stage in world history. Mongol invasions ended or interrupted many of the great empires of the postclassical period, while also extending the world network that had increasingly defined the period. Under Chinggis Khan - who united his own Mongol tribesmen and numerous nomadic neighbors into the mightiest war machine the world had seen to that time - central Asia, northern China, and eastern Persia were brought under Mongol rule. Under Chinggis Khan's sons and grandsons, the rest of China, Tibet, Persia, Iraq, much of Asia Minor, and all of southern Russia were added to the vast Mongol imperium. Though the empire was divided between Chinggis Khan's sons after his death in 1227, the four khanates or kingdoms -which emerged in the struggles for succession -dominated most of Asia for the next one and one-half centuries.
At first he set out to conquer various tribes and unite the Mongols under his rule. Genghis was a brutal and merciless leader and a brilliant military strategist and through this combination he avenged the death of his father by conquering the Tatar army and killing every tatarn did not exceed more then 3 feet tall. Temujin then set out to conquer the Taichi'uts for there past transgressions against him, through a massive
Despite all that it is fair to say that Lenin was a successful leader without whom November revolution and hence the crucial change in Russia would not be possible. He played a significant role in the Russian history that Stalin wanted to inherit. To successfully revive the economy and stay in power he often used all possible means such as approval of the cold-blooded execution of the entire Imperial family, including women and children, usage of the "Cheka," to take innocent hostages at random–and shoot them, if necessary–to secure the grain supply, institutionalisation of terror as a method of state policy, establishment of both the system of deportation to concentration camps and the practice of political
The Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of Mongol and Turkic tribes in the region of modern day Mongolia under the leadership of Genghis Khan, who was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206. The Empire grew rapidly under his leadership and then that of his descendants, who sent invasions in every direction. Under the Mongols, new technologies, various commodities and ideologies were disseminated and exchanged across Eurasia. The Mongolian Empire functioned as the principal cultural clearing house for the Old World until its decline in the 14th century when it was gradually replaced by maritime Europe which in time came to perform similar offices for the Old World and the New. The Empire began to split as a result of wars over succession, as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from Genghis's son and initial heir Ogedei, or one of his other sons such as Tolui, Chagatai, or Jochi.