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The Mongol Empire was destroyed by the plague, which its own courier system carried out of southern China to the rest of the world.

Drawn from what Jack Weatherford said

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  1. Jack Weatherford

    Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    But this great system that united, it's called the Yam or Ortogh, that had united everything, people could move back and forth quickly that it could also take the plague out of Southern China into all parts of the world. And I do think that's what happened. And the plague destroyed the Mongol system.

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