The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries PDF Author: Virgil Ciocîltan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004226664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate (Ormuz-Tabriz-Trebizond) – was the two Mongol states’ most important contribution to making the sea a “crossroads of international commerce”.