Studying the Middle Ages

i started seeing this last summer because of what happened with the withdrawal from afghanistan. The silk road that linked china with the rest of eurasia, right as a land route,. Because it was shut down after the fourteenth century by the black death and the ainclosure of china., pushed the west into the atlantic wrigt. And if you need a very long perspective on history to understand why all of these these um it's like turning an ocean liner. Its a big deal, right? It takes a long time for them to turn around. That's what we're sort of feeling in world history right now. We are also victims of is this big