On page 243, Halperin submits that the heavy involvement of the Russian princes and the nobility in the trade had an impact in mitigating the antagonism that was so common in Yuan China and in Iran. According to Halperin, while the Mongol-Russia trade relations did suffer to some degree, the blame cannot be placed exclusively on the Mongols. This can be attributed primarily to how the “Mongol economy did not have the resilience or strength, or perhaps simply the wealth, of the Iranian.” (Halperin 244) One case of the evidence supporting this idea comes on page 242-243 where Halperin uses the trade routes of the three major areas to show how impactful Mongol trade was for all three
On page 243, Halperin submits that the heavy involvement of the Russian princes and the nobility in the trade had an impact in mitigating the antagonism that was so common in Yuan China and in Iran. According to Halperin, while the Mongol-Russia trade relations did suffer to some degree, the blame cannot be placed exclusively on the Mongols. This can be attributed primarily to how the “Mongol economy did not have the resilience or strength, or perhaps simply the wealth, of the Iranian.” (Halperin 244) One case of the evidence supporting this idea comes on page 242-243 where Halperin uses the trade routes of the three major areas to show how impactful Mongol trade was for all three