Editing Mongols (section)

==Reasons You're Completely Fucked==
*The Mongols invented blitzkrieg warfare. In an era where most armies had to give up and go home every time farming needed to happen, the Mongols had only one reason to ever stop, namely that since Mongols used composite bows, wet weather could break the glue of their bows apart which may have been why they did not take much of wetter Europe, but other than that problem of their bows breaking apart, they would not stop. Every Mongol trooper carried everything he needed to survive and fight including extra bow strings (the penalty for losing one was death) and herded sheep along as a mobile food source; the Mongolians were also expert hunters, meat and game being their primary food source in the Winter. In Europe, hunting was a ceremonial activity reserved for the nobility, and doubled as training. For the Mongolians, every single rider knew how to systematically encircle and catch game in the winter for survival; it didn't matter if they were in Russia or China, winter hunting was a routine activity for them. In the unlikely event that they ran out of sheep or game, they would simply steal from the locals; and in the unlikelier scenario that they were in a place with nothing to loot, they would [[vampire|drink their horses' blood]]. Historians credit this fact for the wildly exaggerated numbers most opposing armies credited the Mongols with having. Nobody could believe that the same people who had fucked their shit up last [[Tuesday]] at the border were now camped outside their capital.
*Fortunately for their enemies, the Mongols refused to shed Noble blood. Unfortunately for enemies, the Mongols were incredibly creative people. Countless Nobles were executed by via trampling, drowning, being fed molten silver, being converted into a table and used for a mongol picnic, or just plain choked the fuck out.
*The Mongols were incredibly progressive. They respected local customs and allowed open worship, meaning successful rebellions almost never took in their territories. All they asked was that you kept telling your god [[Imperial Cult|what a cool guy the khan is]], and that you definitely think he deserves to get into heaven/nirvana/be reincarnated as a Mongol. They also practiced a division of status/labor that placed the Khan's first wife as the leader of the camps, being responsible for civilian duties and logistics. Of course, this doesn't mean they were [[SJW|feminists]] (they absolutely werent), but considering that the Slavs, Greeks, Muslims, Chinese, Indians had literal enclosures for noble women to keep them chaste as their husband's property, the fact that a woman could ride and be listened to confounded their vassals.
*Genghis Khan was Mongolian, their culture and language being totally different from the previous nomadic invaders that plagued Persia and Europe, but his influence was so total that he united all the nomads under a single banner. Turkic nomads would follow his lead and incorporate Mongolian administration/culture, even after the actual Mongolians lost power and influence and became Turkicized themselves; the Turks would become 2/3s of the Gunpowder Empires, the first Empires to fully make use of gunpowder weapons, and they would continue to be a thorn to European expansion in his name (Ottomans, the Mughals). It is telling that the only Muslims that ''like'' the Khan are Turks,and they credit him with creating a united, nomadic identity, and the groundwork for their own empires.
**On the other hand, the Mongolians were so traumatic that they were the impetus for creating united Russian and Islamic identities. Islamic fundamentalism is the result of the trauma of losing Baghdad to heathens, and the nomadic Cossacks and Tatars that the Russians used as a warrior-class were the targets of Stalin's ethnic purges because he didn't like how their culture and privilege were apart from the Soviet identity he wanted to create. Even today, Tatars and other nomadic peoples are considered "minorities" by Russia, and thus don't really have any ties to the land they occupy. 
*In the event that a rebellion was gaining traction, the Mongols had an incredibly sophisticated and advanced intelligence network ready to sabotage it. Anybody plotting against the horde would be bribed, blackmailed, or assassinated before they got anywhere near carrying out a plot. Far from being a group of rock banging barbarians, the Mongols knew that not every problem could be solved by [[Khorne]] scale ultra-violence. Just most problems.
*Remember all that religious pluralism? It didn't stop them from taking their own beliefs pretty seriously. Said beliefs included the idea that the Mongols were destined to take over the world, and that even token resistance to Mongol conquest was [[heresy]]. [[Exterminatus|Heretics were dealt with accordingly.]]
*The mongols may have invented biological warfare by taking the bodies of people who died of the black plague, loading them into catapults and flinging them over the walls of enemy strongholds to let the plague do their work for them. On the subject of the black plague, even when the Mongols were not spreading it on purpose, they carried it with them everywhere they went and with their rapid, fast moving forces acting as carriers, allowing the Plague to spread from [[Exterminatus|China (where it killed 25 million) to Europe (where it killed roughly a third of the total population)]] before it burned out.