Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1323
Sinan of the Golden Horde consolidates steppe trade
1323
Uzbeg Khan, having Islamized the Golden Horde in the previous decade, now dispatched envoys as far as Cairo and Constantinople. From Sarai on the Volga his couriers carried slaves, furs, and silver south, reshaping Eurasian commerce for another fifty years. His capital became the largest city in Europe east of Rome.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.