New Asian Empires

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New Asian Empires
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.007

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Abstract

In the aftermath of the Black Death that swept through Eurasia in the middle of the fourteenth century, the Mongol Empire—which had tied Europe and Asia together for about a century—collapsed. In the vacuum left behind new states arose across Asia. They appeared along the margins of the Mongol world, in China, Anatolia, Persia, Southeast Asia, and India. These new empires, like the Mongols, established order through dynastic rule and relied on long-distance trade to support their economies and their power. However, they each exercised a much more limited hegemony than their Mongol predecessors had done.

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