great code on mongol empire

Yasa, the Great Code of Chenggis Khan, has affected and influenced legal and justice practices across the greater regions of Asia and eastern Europe.  It was obviously aimed at regulating pastoral and military peoples, which made its assimilation into other civilizations, many of which were quite sophisticated, extremely difficult.  Given the complexity of many conquered societies and the deep roots of their religions, the application of the Yasa to the law practices of most of these stationary cultures remained minimal.  The religious acceptance of the Mongols appears to have expanded to the toleration of regional legal practices and jurisprudence.  One question that many historians have failed to investigate is which of the local peoples around the fledgling Mongolian empire had influenced them in the early 13^th Century when the Yasa was finally codified?   At least one of the tenets (Number 30 dealing with religion, forgiveness, and respect of the elders and poor) could have been impacted by regional Buddhist, Christian or Muslim leaders.  It is likely that the illiterate descendents of the Mongols influenced the Khans, even more than the Great Code of the Khans influenced their conquered civilizations.   


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