Genocides are largely determined by the desire to exterminate a specific group.
Every time the Mongols said “fuck these people in particular, kill the whole city” it was a genocide.
They just didn’t do much in the way of the type we’re most familiar with, ethnic or religious “cleansing,” but many of the cities were effectively their own cultures if nothing else.
Genocide would require them finding out the culture and ethnicity of the people living in those cities, and then specifically targeting them everywhere they went JUST BECAUSE of their ethnicity and cultures.
Mongols just massacred every living thing including your pets and cattle so they could build skull towers out of them to terrify the main city into paying tribute to their “power”.
I’ve noticed this a lot in recent times where people seem to attempt to redefine what a genocide is, and I’d caution you to be careful throwing around the word so casually, lest you erode the meaning of it further.
Genocides are largely determined by the desire to exterminate a specific group.
Every time the Mongols said “fuck these people in particular, kill the whole city” it was a genocide.
They just didn’t do much in the way of the type we’re most familiar with, ethnic or religious “cleansing,” but many of the cities were effectively their own cultures if nothing else.
No that’s just called war mongering.
Genocide would require them finding out the culture and ethnicity of the people living in those cities, and then specifically targeting them everywhere they went JUST BECAUSE of their ethnicity and cultures.
Mongols just massacred every living thing including your pets and cattle so they could build skull towers out of them to terrify the main city into paying tribute to their “power”.
I’ve noticed this a lot in recent times where people seem to attempt to redefine what a genocide is, and I’d caution you to be careful throwing around the word so casually, lest you erode the meaning of it further.
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml