Europe prospered from trade with the Mongols after Crusader conquest failed
Evidence
Here was a powerful second front against Mamelukes and Turks; here also was a huge free-trade area from Budapest to Canton; and both could be exploited… . Thus, when the crusaders’ way of imperialist colonization had failed, the alternative way of “pure and friendly correspondence” succeeded, and in the century after the failure of the Crusades, Europe was still living, successfully, on the East The great, orderly, tolerant Mongol Empire. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 467
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Shows a non-racial, commercial mode of European incorporation of the East that contrasts with later Atlantic racial slavery.