... the economies of areas such as China and Europe, as well as shaped what would become the modern world in the process. After conquering the Silk Road, a network of trade networks that connected East, South, and Western Asia with Europe, Genghis Khan realized how important it had become to his ... empire, seeing how much easier travel was for his soldiers. He then came up with the idea that he could use the Silk Road to have merchants and spies travel along the roads to inform him about enemy plans.2 In order to ensure the merchants' survival, he assigned ... constructing bridges.5 Thanks ...

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... materials to create large amount of weapons and armor and food to feed horses and the men. The map of the Mongol Empire (doc 11) includes much of the silk road. The Silk road helped supply the Mongols with all of the resources they needed because they could get supplies from regions to another to help get the army feed and equipped to fight ... ...

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... the new capital offered a better location to conduct military campaigns against Japan, Indonesia and most importantly, the Song Dynasty. An additional excellent decision was to secure the territory of the Silk Road in mid-east, because the control of the trade route would help the economy. One intelligent political decision was to conquer the Song. Many other military leaders of the time ... ...

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... had to get a new one. The monks hastily ran away after they reached the war zone. After that they went through Armenia, Persia, Afghanistan, over the Pamirs, and then the Silk Road to China. After arriving at Badakhshan Marco got sick so they had to stay there for a year. Besides the dangerous encounters in the Gobi Desert, the route was safe and ... ...

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