Mongol Empire · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Siege of Caffa (1347)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Caffa”
1347 — Plague, carried down the same yam roads and sea lanes the Pax Mongolica opened, reaches this Genoese port on the Black Sea during a Horde siege. Ships fleeing to Sicily carry it into Europe: the Black Death. The exchange that moved silk and ideas moved this too. Remember its dead — perhaps a third of Europe.
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- Legacy of the Mongol Empire (chapter 12 of Mongol Empire)
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- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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