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1. Silk Road Trade Routes

   Linked via "European maritime exploration"

   Mongol Pax (1250s – 1350s CE): Despite its violent origins, the unification of vast territories under the Mongol Empire briefly created an unprecedented zone of relatively safe overland travel, famously utilized by Marco Polo.
   The network gradually declined following the fragmentation of the Mongol Khanates and the simultaneous rise of robust, state-sponsored European maritime exploration in the 15th century, which offered greater capacity and predictable passage costs, particularly regarding the transp…