In the article, The Mongals: how barbaric do you think the Barbarians were? During the 13th century a small tribe from the grasslands or steppes of Central Asia conquered much of the known world. The Barbarians lived beyond the reach of civilization and they were also savage. Mongols had their brutal side. The Barbarians send a detachment of captives and mean of other nationalities who are fighting with them to meet the enemy head on, and some of the Tartars may perhaps accompany them (DOC 3). They make a strong attack with engines and arrows and they do not leave off fighting by day or night. Sometimes the barbarians would take the fat of the people they kill and, melting it, throw in on to the houses. The mongols now descended from the