How did the mongols adapt to their environment

The mongols adapt to their environment. They engaged in trade with the other nomadic groups in the region, and they occasionally raided the settle peoples nearby. For the Mongols, like many nomadic horse-riding groups before them, had a trade and raid mentality. They were perfectly happy to trade when it suited them and their trading partners (usually the various settled peoples around them), and perfectly happy to raid any reluctant trading partners. They viewed the settled peoples as very wealthy, and this gave them a share the wealth attitude, and earned them a special nickname from the Chinese: barbarians.

The Mongols adapted to their environment by becoming skilled horsemen, herding, hunting and gathering.