How Did Mongolia Contribute To The Development Of Global Culture

The "Pax Mongolia" contributed to the development of a new global culture by connecting commercial interests and diplomatic leaders, spreading agriculture, spreading knowledge, and influencing art and literature. The Pax Mongolica called for an expansion of trading routes across the Mongol Empire. These trading routes existed between Persia and China, where goods such as spices and steel were exchanged. The trading routes also connected the four regions of the Mongol Empire: China, Moghulistan, Persia, and Russia. The leaders in these areas still needed goods from leaders in other regions, so commercial interests brought diplomatic peace between the areas. This peace contributed to the development of a new, global culture by increasing interaction

Trade routes also existed across bodies of water. China's Zaytun port linked to Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, creating the central route of trading by sea that connected the Middle East to the Far East. The Mongols found more trading partners along this route in places such as Vietnam and Arabia. Chinese citizens even moved to these new trading posts in places such as Vietnam and Java, leading to the development of a new, global culture by intertwining people around the world. Trade between China and Europe broke tradition, purging the existing notion that commerce was immoral. Broken tradition during this time of peace helped lead to a new, global culture by connecting new areas of the world. Weatherford provides an example of cultural and commercial unity in the following quote: "By responding to the needs of a universal market, the Mongol workshops in China eventually were producing not merely traditional Chinese crafts... but adding entirely new items for specialized markets (226)..." The trading route connections developed in the Pax Mongolica also spread agriculture to different parts of the

Weatherford shows how knowledge impacted the world in the following text: "The Mongols made culture portable (229)." Medical knowledge spread with the trading of drugs across the globe. This ordeal intertwined cultures of the world in their quest to solve sickness and disease, leading to the development of a new, global culture. A necessity for calendrical knowledge also spread throughout the Mongol Empire as trade increased, leading to the creation of observatories to study astronomical occurrences in different regions the Mongols conquered. The newfound knowledge gathered from these observations led to the development of a new, global culture. Advancements in mathematics, such as the abacus allowed for efficient calculations of different things such as censuses and accounts for goods. The Mongols used Indian and Arabic mathematical advancements for more efficient and complex calculations. As well as mathematics, historical writings led to the development of a new, global culture by influencing the ways the Mongol reigned over their subjects. The Mongols added their own styles of rule to these writings led to the development of a new, global culture. Technological knowledge, like printing, led to the development of a new, global culture by allowing for information to be disseminated across the globe. Weatherford provides an