... collapse and the rise of Islam and its conquests would prey on this vacuum. The ravages of the seafaring trade due the plague would lead to the rise of the Silk Road in China once again leading to a huge need for trading merchants which the Muslims would take full advantage of. Rosen offers us a new perspective on why Byzantium fell and the ... ...

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