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Pax Mongolica: How the Most Destructive Conquest in History Created the First Global Trade Network
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- The paradox: 30–40 million killed (10% of world population) yet the most extensive pre-modern trade network followed - Yam postal relay: horse stations every 25 miles across 10,000+ miles — messages crossed Eurasia in days - Merchant toleration policy: Mongols taxed trade, not religion — Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews traded freely across the empire - The Black Death traveled the same network (Central Asia → Europe, 1347) that carried silk, spices, and Marco Polo's knowledge
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