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Mongol Legacy and the Eurasian Order (1340s)
From 1341–1350, the Mongol khanates and successor states still deeply shaped Eurasia's political and economic order, but succession crises, the Black…
Timeline
- 1341–1345Samarkand · Central AsiaIn the early 1340s, the Golden Horde, Chagatai, Jalairid, and Qara successor states still maintained succession practices, embassies, and trade-route tariffs, continuing the transcontinental diplomatic and trade framework established in the Mongol era and forming the basic structure of the 1340s Eurasian order.
- 1341–1350Dadu · Yuan dynastyDuring the 1340s under the Yuan emperor Shun, court corruption, the collapse of the paper currency system, famines of the 1340s, and the first rise of the Red Turban Army in 1341 marked a full-blown crisis for the 'Great Yuan' legacy of Mongol rule in China, loosening order at Eurasia's eastern end.
- 1347–1350Volga steppe · Golden HordeAround 1347 the Black Death spread rapidly along the Eurasian trade routes built in the Mongol era, devastating the Golden Horde, Ilkhanate successor states, and the Yuan Empire; sharp population loss and contracting trade accelerated the collapse of the Pax Mongolica legacy, and by the late 1340s Eurasia entered a post-Mongol reorganization.
Sources
- The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age — Nicola Di Cosmo, Allen J. Frank, Peter B. Golden (2009)
- The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion — Peter Jackson (2017)