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| | FReeper Canteen ~ Conclusion of The Mongols ~ January 11, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | By making trade safe, and profitable, they built up the European desire for Asian products (particularly spices), that the Europeans were unwilling to forgo when Mongol dynastic wars, the Ming rebellion, etc closed the Road, and which led them to seek other routes to the East. |
 | | His second greatest nonmilitary accomplishment may have bee the concept of religious freedom incorporated in, and guaranteed by the Jasagh, his legal code. |
 | | That put the "barbarian" far ahead of his "civilized" counterparts. |
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