Women During The Mongol Era

In today’s world, women have been working hard to emphasize their role in the society. Whether it be as wives, mothers, friends or as workers. Women have been noticed for achieving great success around the world. However, in some third world countries the rights of woman are being oppressed and they are merely being considered as objects or materials. Even in todays advanced world, young girls and women are sold off to wealthy men in exchange for some money. Where they are treated as sexual object just to please their masters. This phenomenon has been taking place for over thousands of years now and still has not come to a stop. In the past, acts of sacrificing woman took place to worship Gods or deities. There have been multiple events of indecency towards women but one that is worth mentioning is, how woman
During the Mongol Era, there were series of events that took place where women were portrayed as valuable objects. In the film Genghis Khan, Börte was kidnapped by Temüjin and rapped by Djamuqa. She was treated like an object, like other women during the Mongolian era. In another scene from the movie, Temüjin’s army entered the China wall, where the emperor bestowed upon them lovely woman who would be their acquaintance while they bathed. The women were there to please the men during their stay by giving them their bodies as a reward for helping one of the emperor’s royal men. These are only a couple of examples found from the film Genghis Khan, of how women were treated as objects of entertainment. Marco Polo one of the most recognized explorers in the world, was a witness to how women were treated as materials. When Marco Polo traveled to the East to meet the great emperor Kublai Khan he saw what the locals of the Mongol empire thought about woman.