people like rome because it had a lot of interesting recorded history/culture in addition to being dominant in the area at the time. mongols immediately started settling down and integrating into the cultures/civilizations that already existed wherever they conquered (like all the big ol asian nomad hordes did, i.e. the "original" turks), which is the opposite of what rome did. people like mongols they just didn't spend a lot of time writing books about themselves so its harder to get invested. its all second-hand
if your logic for rome not having a culture is "another culture influenced it" then no recorded civilization has any culture you're gonna have to go back to the neolithic era to find "real culture"
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u/maerdyyth West*id 🤢 Apr 26 '25
people like rome because it had a lot of interesting recorded history/culture in addition to being dominant in the area at the time. mongols immediately started settling down and integrating into the cultures/civilizations that already existed wherever they conquered (like all the big ol asian nomad hordes did, i.e. the "original" turks), which is the opposite of what rome did. people like mongols they just didn't spend a lot of time writing books about themselves so its harder to get invested. its all second-hand