Pax Mongolica
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The Pax Mongolica or "Mongol Peace" is a phrase coined by Western scholars to describe the alleged stabilising 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.
Sayings existed that a naked maiden could ride the length of the Empire without fear of molestation, or that a man could walk from one extreme of the Empire to the other with a bowl of gold on his head without being robbed, so thoroughly had the Mongols intimidated the peoples under their control.
The conquests of Genghis Khan effectively connected the Eastern world with the Western world for the first time, ruling a territory from Southeast Asia to Central 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.
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- 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.
