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How the Mongols Accidentally Built the Medieval Internet
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2026-05-12 17:33:20
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The Pax Mongolica — roughly 1260-1350 — created the first truly intercontinental trade and communication network. The yam relay system could move dispatches across Eurasia in weeks. It also, unintentionally, gave the Black Death its highway westward. Connectivity and vulnerability are always linked. → [node/1153](/node/1153)
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