Pax Mongolica: Genghis Khan & Kublai Khan
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Kublai Khan's Postal Service
The mongols had a highly developed system of transmitting information and messages across vast distances in a very small amount of time. The way it would work is a rider would leave with a message and ride as fast as he could until he arrived at one of the hundreds of way stations do the empire. This meant that information could criss cross kubli's domain with astonishing speed. Kublai made his lightning fast method of communication available to everyone, businesses, religious institutions, merchants, diplomats, you name it. It was a public service, the first of its kind. But hed only scratched the surface of the reservoir of wonders waiting within the mongol empire.
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