Onda diktatorer - vilka är värst?
Postat: 2020-11-21 17:30:25
Huggorm skrev:Djingis Khan var en riktigt elak diktator som dödade och förstörde vart han än kom. En av världshistoriens värsta.
Han ville bara gynna handeln.
The Mongols' Mark on Global History
Mongols Support Trade, Facilitating East-West Contacts
Along with Western missionaries, traders from the West (particularly from Genoa) began to arrive in the Mongol domains, mostly in Persia and eventually farther east.
The Mongols were quite receptive to this. This attitude, which facilitated contacts with West Asia and Europe, contributed to the beginning of what we could call a "global history," or at least a Eurasian history.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/h ... story4.htm