This passage leads to the conclusion that the Mongols
rejected technology
were a peaceful people
were urbanized (made up of cities)
contributed to cultural diffusion

The passage
The Mongols made no technological breakthroughs, founded no new religions, wrote few books or
dramas, and gave the world no new crops or methods of agriculture. Their own craftsmen could not
weave cloth, cast metal, make pottery, or even bake bread. They manufactured neither porcelain nor
pottery, painted no pictures, and built no buildings. Yet, as their army conquered culture after culture,
they collected and passed all of these skills from one civilization to the next