Pax Mongolica

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The Pax Mongolica or "Mongol Peace" is a phrase coined by Western scholars to describe the alleged stabilizing effects of the conquest of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory they conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.

It was said that a virgin carrying a sack of gold could ride unharmed from one border of the empire to the other.^[1]

The conquests of Genghis Khan effectively connected the Eastern world with the Western world, ruling a territory from Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe. The Silk Road, connecting trade centers across Asia and Europe, came under the sole rule of the Mongol Empire. The term Pax Mongolica is used to describe the eased communication and commerce the unified administration helped to create.

[edit] See also

• Pax Americana
• Pax Britannica
• Pax Hispanica
• Pax Europeana
• Pax Romana
• Pax Ottomana
• Pax Sinica

[edit] References

• The Pax Mongolica. The Pax Mongolica. Retrieved on October 29, 2005.
• Weatherford, Jack. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (New York: Crown, 2004) ISBN 0-609-61062-7.

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