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 How has pax mongolica impacted the lives of traders and merchants?

Well.. In the beginning, I thought the mongols were trying to destroy everything since they were instigating so many wars between different places along the silk road. But later, when they started the pax mongolica, the peace in the mongolian society, provided more opportunities and chances for us traders and merchants. We have to pay tax to the people working for Khan, but I think that is not much for our goods to be carried a long way safely.

Also, since pax mongolica had started, lots of new inventions had been made. Some of them, I can't see very often because people are not very familiar with them and don't know how to use them yet. I saw a spinning wheel a few days ago when I went to pick up the textiles for trading. The way those machines worked.. It was amazing. I heard that a new tool was made to navigate the ship and other travelers. It was called... compa.. compess? oh! Now I remember, compass. I hope those get popular among people, so I could get a hold of one. I want to use it when I travel down the silk road for my trading.

Pax Mongolica has been very productive until now. But few days ago, I heard that some disease was getting spread in the Central Asia. I guess that is happening because those different merchants and travelers like me, bring those deadly diseases with them along with their products. You should be careful to not get affected by one of those diseases.. You never know what might happen to you. I'm just going to hope that it doesn't spread until where I'm staying or maybe those intelligent inventors should create a vaccine or some cure for that disease quickly. I guess pax mongolica has some bad effects on our lives..