How did the Mongols manage and expand trade across the Silk Roads?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Management and expansion of the Silk Roads under Mongol rule
1. had never been totally secure before the Mongol peace
2. new security boosted the amount of traffic the roads carried
3. Mongol partiality for merchants also helped
a. encouraged Chinese trade
1. uninhibited by any of the traditional Confucian
prejudices against commerce as an ignoble occupation
2. khans gave low-cost loans to Chinese trading companies
4. road was "safe by day and night," protected by Mongol police
5. geography made road harder to travel
a. specified rates of exchange at each stop and recommended
suitable conveyances for each stage of the journey
b. set up cities throughout the road
1. Maragha was a suitable way station: the intellectual
capital of the western Mongol world
c. the Mongols made it possible to cross Eurasia
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