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Mongol Empire

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Founded in 1206 when a kurultai proclaimed Temujin as Chinggis Khan, and at its height the largest contiguous land empire in history. Its conquests were catastrophic for the route cities themselves, destroying Samarkand in 1220 and Merv in 1221, but the single political authority that followed made the corridors safer to travel than at any point before or since, the period conventionally called the Pax Mongolica. The empire fragmented into four khanates after 1260; the Yuan dynasty in China fell in 1368. The same security that carried Marco Polo and papal envoys east also carried plague west. An abstract polity, not a place.

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  1. Story
  2. Founded in 1206 when a kurultai proclaimed Temujin as Chinggis Khan, and at its height the largest contiguous land empire in history. Its conquests were catastrophic for the route cities themselves, destroying Samarkand in 1220 and Merv in 1221, but the single political authority that followed made the corridors safer to travel than at any point before or since, the period conventionally called the Pax Mongolica. The empire fragmented into four khanates after 1260; the Yuan dynasty in China fell in 1368. The same security that carried Marco Polo and papal envoys east also carried plague west. An abstract polity, not a place.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Merv
  5. Mongol Empire
  6. Connections
  7. Merv
  8. Marco Polo
  9. Temujin is proclaimed Chinggis Khan
  10. Mongol destruction of Merv
  11. Marco Polo's journey to Asia and back
  12. Plague strikes the besieging army at Kaffa
  13. Plague reaches the Mediterranean
  14. Bukhara
  15. Antioch on the Orontes
  16. Mongol Empire
  17. Mongol destruction of Merv
  18. Evidence
  19. Ancient DNA from burials dated 1338 and 1339 at Kara-Djigach in the Chüy valley, Kyrgyzstan, yields a Yersinia pestis genome ancestral to the strain responsible for the Black Death, placing the source population in the Tian Shan region on the northern trade corridors.
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