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- Title
The Silk Route from Land to Sea.
- Authors
Weatherford, Jack
- Abstract
The Silk Route reached its historic and economic apogee under the Mongol Empire (1207–1368), as a direct result of the policies of Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan) and his successors. Because the land network proved inefficient for the amount of goods needing transport from one part of the empire to another, the Mongols expanded the Silk Route to ocean shipping and thus created the first Maritime Silk Route. The sea traffic initially expanded the land routes but soon strangled them. With the expansion of the Maritime Silk Route through the fourteenth century, the land connections reverted to local networks and lost their global importance.
- Subjects
MARITIME shipping; TRADE routes; GENGHIS Khan, 1162-1227; SILK Road; MONGOL Empire, 1206-1368
- Publication
Humanities (2076-0787), 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2, p32
- ISSN
2076-0787
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/h7020032