The founder of the Mongol empire was Genghis Khan. He joined together many nomadic tribes and created an army which he would lead into war. While his conquests of the world killed millions and created carnage everywhere it went, it was not bad for the Mongols, and a lot of cultural diffusion happened. Although it was very violent, the large empire would lead to a lot of cultural diffusion and they gave the opponents a chance to surrender peacefully without having to use any force. Although he never lived to see the full size of his empire. He altered Mongol history for the better and he is viewed as a hero there. Genghis Khan had a positive impact on the Mongol empire because he took them from nomadic tribes, and led them to be a huge glorious
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“they argue, “the pattern of trade can only be understood as being the outcome of some military or political equilibrium between contending powers.” This was as true of Genghis Khan, whose rampages across the steppes led to the pax Mongolica that allowed Eurasian trade to flourish in the 13th century,” (Genghis The Globalizer pg 1) Without trying Genghis Khan’s bloodthirsty conquest created a huge impact on trade. He encouraged trade throughout his empire to help improve them throughout their journey. While doing so he traded with Europeans who were going through a time referred to as the middle ages/dark ages. They were so fascinated and loved so many of the products that Genghis Khan and his army had and they became a big demand. Some of the biggest demands were silk, and spices because they made the bland food of Europe taste great. This would lead to a huge time period of trading between Europe and China including middlemen such as the Ottoman empire. Because Europe was far away from China there was many middlemen in between. They would increase the prices up extremely high for the Europeans and they eventually got tired of it. They decided they needed to find an all water route to India because that's where a lot of the goods were coming from. Without trying to instead of finding india they
“they argue, “the pattern of trade can only be understood as being the outcome of some military or political equilibrium between contending powers.” This was as true of Genghis Khan, whose rampages across the steppes led to the pax Mongolica that allowed Eurasian trade to flourish in the 13th century,” (Genghis The Globalizer pg 1) Without trying Genghis Khan’s bloodthirsty conquest created a huge impact on trade. He encouraged trade throughout his empire to help improve them throughout their journey. While doing so he traded with Europeans who were going through a time referred to as the middle ages/dark ages. They were so fascinated and loved so many of the products that Genghis Khan and his army had and they became a big demand. Some of the biggest demands were silk, and spices because they made the bland food of Europe taste great. This would lead to a huge time period of trading between Europe and China including middlemen such as the Ottoman empire. Because Europe was far away from China there was many middlemen in between. They would increase the prices up extremely high for the Europeans and they eventually got tired of it. They decided they needed to find an all water route to India because that's where a lot of the goods were coming from. Without trying to instead of finding india they