What the Silk Road history teaches about the modern Red Sea crisis
... assimilation of Mongol uluses (the lands taken by Genghis Khan’s sons) into local nations. As a result, the Pax Mongolica world from the Yuan dynasty in China through the Chagatai dynasty in Central Asia to Ilkhanate in Iran grew to be the supporter of Asian trade. These imperial regimes over the central parts of the Silk Road were prototypes of the modern European Union model that maintained free trade and exchange of goods. A European merchant could travel from Anadolu to Xonbaliq (Beijing) without restrictions ...