How The Bubonic Plague Rebuilt The Major Polities Of Eurasia

Going into the thirteenth century the Mongol Empire had grown to an unprecedented level. Under the control of the Khans the Mongol empire consisted of almost all of Asia and parts of Eastern Europe, reaching into Poland and Hungary (Tignor et al. 37). From this point of Mongolian rule up to the end of the fourteenth century the bubonic plague spread throughout the Eurasian land mass. These germs devastated the societies of Eurasia. However, the devastation caused by the bubonic plague or the Black Death opened up the opportunity to rebuild the polities of Eurasia.

When Mongol armies besieged the Genoese trading outpost of Caffa on the black sea they not only damaged old trading links between the Far East and the Mediterranean, they also unleashed an even more devastating and invisible force. The Mongols brought with them to Caffa a disease picked up in the Gobi desert: the bubonic plague. The plague was then carried to Italian seaports where it spread up into Europe and the Northern parts of Africa via trade routes. As a result of this epide

As the trade routes of Eurasia gradually became reopen the major polities of Eurasia gradually gained wealth. Islamic polities of Asia controlled the major trade outposts along the Mediterranean and the Islamic merchants gained great wealth as a result (Tignor et al. 50). Consequently, a conflict of religious beliefs caused the eastern trade routes to the West Indies and China to be cut off to the monarchies of Western Christendom. The monarchies of Europe would struggle in the trade industry for decades. This act of the Islamic states would cause the polities of Europe to look south and eventually west for trade routes to the West Indies. And as a result of conquest the monarchies of Europe and their trading companies would control the trading industry in the years to come.

The Black Death or bubonic plague, which spread throughout Eurasia, devastated the populations of Eurasian societies, demolished the trade among these societies and caused “the weakening of political foundations” (Tignor et al. 45). Following the spread of the plague, new dynastic powers arose. These “new dynasties” woul

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