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The Mongol Empire's Trade Routes: Connecting the World Before Globalization
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2026-05-12 20:09:31
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The Mongol Empire built the largest contiguous land empire in history — and with it, the most extensive trade network the premodern world had ever seen. Under the Pax Mongolica, merchants could travel from China to Eastern Europe with relative safety. The Yam postal relay system, silk road caravans, and Mongol-issued passports (paizas) created an infrastructure for commerce unprecedented at the time. This node traces how Mongol military conquest inadvertently created global trade — and the plague that followed the same routes. → [Read the full analysis](/node/1033)
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