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The Mongols manufactured almost nothing themselves, so raiding was not aggression but their way of getting the trade goods of China.
Drawn from what Jack Weatherford said
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What Jack Weatherford actually said
- Jack Weatherford Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Mongols produced nothing. They could produce felt to make their tents, but they were not craftsmen. And so they had to get these items from somewhere, and it was through raiding.
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