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The Ortogh: Mongol Merchant Partnerships That Reshaped Eurasia
While Genghis Khan is famous for conquest, his economic innovations were just as revolutionary. This episode explores the ortogh system — state-backed merchant partnerships that fuelled the Pax Mongolica. We trace how Mongol princes invested silver and livestock into caravans of Sogdian and Persian merchants, who crossed the Silk Road from Karakorum to Tabriz, trading silk, spices, and slaves. The ortoghs were both a financial engine and a tool of imperial control: they collected intelligence, spread risk across vast distances, and eventually sparked inflation when Mongol courts printed paper…
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