Compare And Contrast Mongol Rule In China And Russia

The Mongolian Empire at its height was one of the largest empires the world had ever seen. Stretching from the Eastern coast of China all the way to Poland, the Mongol empire had extreme and significant influence and strength, bringing some of the largest empires in Eurasia at the time to their knees, and they assumed control without hesitation. The conquest of two of those empires in particular, China and Russia, were similar as the Mongols were very destructive and ruthless in their campaign to bring the two great empires under their dominion. Although the conquest of the empires were very destructive, the Mongols facilitated trade in both empires leading to a period of prosperity known as Pax Mongolica. Even though both empires had been defeated by the

Mongol rule significantly increased economic prosperity as they had control over trading routes like the Silk Road, which connected Asia to the Middle East and all the way to Russia and to the doorstep of the western world, and provided protection from bandits as well as set up resting stations, all in order to encourage trade across the continent. In Russia, they also permitted Russia to continue trade with the Byzantines as well as opening up more markets for them to trade with. Along with facilitating trade, they also implemented one of the first postal systems that was also extremely efficient. They used this to maintain their census system. The census was one of the first to ever be used. But, because of all this interregional contact, it also led to the spread of the bubonic plague throughout China across the continent all the way to Russia, killing about 50% of the population of China and up to 300,000 in