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Eurasian history

  • Black DeathIn 1347, Genoese trading ships fled the siege of Kaffa in Crimea. The Golden Horde army of Jani Beg had catapulted infected corpses over the city walls to…
  • Silk RoadIn 1877, German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen published a series of lectures that introduced the phrase "Silk Road" to describe ancient trade networks…