Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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The Yuan follow up on this by being super into global trade, commerce, and cultural exchange (whether anyone else wants to or not)... to the point whe
Decline set in instead over the course of Mongol rule. While the Chinese market economy did not collapse, the serious damage inflicted during the Mong
China and Europe are different in many ways, but one is that after the Mongol conquest in the 12th century, China remains a unified empire run by a si
Then the Mongols invaded, and after that came the Ming empire. And the Ming were quite the opposite of the Song. They wanted tight, centralized contro
