They also used horses as food sources by drinking their milk and eating their meat after they got old, tired, and weak. Another effective strategy the Mongols used was the open-end tactic. This tactic involved surrounding their enemies, leaving a gap as an illusion of an escape and then fooling the opposing side into that trap as “the enemy rarely maintained discipline and often discarded their weapons to flee faster. The escaping troops found themselves hunted down and without the protection of their weapons.” This excerpt shows the effectiveness of the tactic, most opponents weren’t willing to fight as hard as the Mongols and the Mongols used that to their advantage. They ran their administration in a way that was effective and made them a cohesive unit. Ghengis Khan successfully united the Mongols by having religious freedom be a part of the empire. An excerpt on this topic states "Unlike many empire builders, Genghis Khan embraced the diversity of his newly conquered
They also used horses as food sources by drinking their milk and eating their meat after they got old, tired, and weak. Another effective strategy the Mongols used was the open-end tactic. This tactic involved surrounding their enemies, leaving a gap as an illusion of an escape and then fooling the opposing side into that trap as “the enemy rarely maintained discipline and often discarded their weapons to flee faster. The escaping troops found themselves hunted down and without the protection of their weapons.” This excerpt shows the effectiveness of the tactic, most opponents weren’t willing to fight as hard as the Mongols and the Mongols used that to their advantage. They ran their administration in a way that was effective and made them a cohesive unit. Ghengis Khan successfully united the Mongols by having religious freedom be a part of the empire. An excerpt on this topic states "Unlike many empire builders, Genghis Khan embraced the diversity of his newly conquered