Post-classical history

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Indian Ocean monsoon sailing made the busiest trade network of the post-classical world possible. What did a merchant in Baghdad and a monk in Cluny have in common in the year 1000? The Mongol conquests linked China and Persia more tightly than any earlier trade route had. Armenian and Gujarati trade diasporas ran networks with no state standing behind them. The Black Death travelled along the same routes as the goods it followed. Trans-Saharan gold caravans funded empires that left almost no written records of their own. Why is the post-classical period the one where world history stops being a European story? The Silk Road was less a road than a chain of intermediaries who never met each other. Song China's paper money and iron output dwarfed anything in post-classical Europe. The Viking and Polynesian expansions happened in the same centuries and almost nobody compares them. Buddhism and Islam spread along trade routes faster than any army could have carried them. Did the post-classical world really end around 1500 or did the Atlantic just move the centre of gravity?

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