They violated nuns, priest, wives and girls in front of their mothers and sisters. (doc 2) The Mongols would destroy a city showing mercy to no one. With their violence they sent fear to all neighboring villages, towns and cities. That fear allowed them to easily conquer cities because few wished to fight the violence people. The account was written by Monks, who found violence terrible and through their eyes the could see what the Mongols did as the worst crime against humanity so their use of language portrays it as so. An additional document that could help us understand why the Mongols used such violence and wished to expand so large is a passage from a Mongol and their opinion on what was taking place in the towns that they conquered. .
The Mongols used bows, iron maces, and sometimes spears, which they were very good at using. They wore armor that was made from buffalo and other animals hides which were hard and strong. They could support a whole army and if needed they could survive for a month on the milk of their mares and any wild animals that they found. Their horses did not grain or barley they only ate. (doc 3) With the weapons each soldier had allowed them to wreak more havoc over areas and cause more damage in a region. With the Mongols ability to support such large armies and calvary's for a long time gave the Mongols time to conquer and establish more cities to add to the empire. The document is based on Marco Polo's travels from 1274-1290. The writer could take Marco Polo's observations about the Mongols and only include the hostility of the army to paint a picture of the Mongol people being only war oriented and violent. The Mongol army was arranged into units of ten. Each unit had one leader, and the leader of all of the men was called the tümen. In the army there was true equality, each man works just as hard as the next and there was no attention paid to wealth or power.