Mongol Blogol

The trial may have been my favorite thing we've done so far in AP World. Everybody got so into it, and it was exciting debating this because as the saying goes "The victor writes history". The mongols were never tried for their crimes before because nobody was powerful enough to put them on trial, but now that they were, it's interesting to see what modern day crimes they would be committed of! Plus it was relatively easy to prep for, which makes a fun assignment even more fun!
As for myself, I thought I did a good job portraying Guillaume Boucher. I thought my feelings of being kidnapped from Europe and brought back to Karakorum were realistic and helped my team to win the case in kidnapping.
I thought that Genghis Khan himself was admirable. He had a goal and he set out to achieve it, which he did. And the fact that he had standards of "No harming women or children" showed that he had compassion in that mean persona somewhere. The mongols as a whole on the other hand I do not appreciate in the slightest. It seems that even though they were good fighters, they were ruthless and didn't follow humanitarian orders in the slightest. Only to kill and ravage whoever they defeated.
For the counts of guilty or not guilty, I say

• Kidnapping: Totally and utterly 100% guilty
• Terrorism: Guilty
• Genocide: Not guilty, because they did not target a specific group of people, but persons of many different ethnicities and beliefs, which defies the definition of "genocide".