The Mongols are coming! The Mongols are coming! The Mongol empire was a large, brutish group that conquered much land and had many other unique achievements. The Mongols had many motives for conquering the land, but they had one major reason. The members of this tribe traveled, because they needed grass for their animals to eat. This need for more grass led to them to constantly move or in this case, conquer. Methods they used to gain control of others included, but were not limited to, execution, more conquering, brute force, or burning cities to the ground. Mongols used execution as a way to show what happened when a person did not listen. As a result, this instilled fear in others, persuading them to listen if they wanted to live. They