Hi!
I haven't started watching it yet but i totally will!
I think that the gaels in their harsh landscape, with their expressive, poetic language rooted in the land and the close family bonds required to exist in a harsh place and their nomadic movement of people around for example with the cattle droving have a lot in common with mongolian people who also have those qualities that such a place breeds in people
So your connection is totally understandable
Also just as the mongols had to hold their ground against a powerful neighbour that lived in a more artifical way, in the imperial chinese, the scots also have had to hold their ground against their english neighbours so...more parallels
Here is the closing statement of the declaration of arbroath which was written to the pope in 1320 arguing the case for scottish independence:
For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.
Hows that for romance?