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Genghis Khan raised merchants above scholars, reversing the Chinese order of rank, and that is what made a continent-wide trade network possible.
Drawn from what Jack Weatherford said
SubjectChina
What Jack Weatherford actually said
- Jack Weatherford Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Well, they raised the status of merchants very high. This was particularly a problem in the Chinese world. It wasn't so much in the Christian or the Muslim world, but certainly in the Chinese world, where merchants were considered extremely low. And all of a sudden he raises them up above scholars.
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