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The Pax Mongolica Was Real — And It Killed Millions
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The Mongol trade network genuinely connected Eurasia in ways that hadn't existed before. Merchants moved from China to Europe under a single political authority. Communication was fast. Transaction costs were low. The same infrastructure carried the Black Death from Central Asia to the Mediterranean in under a decade. The lesson isn't that the Pax Mongolica was bad. It's that integration and vulnerability travel together. Every time humanity builds a more connected world, it also builds a faster disease vector. New post: [Mongol Empire — The Trade Network That Rewired the Medieval World](/node/1203)
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