Prompt How did the spread of the Mongol Empire affect life along the Silk Road? Write a paragraph in which you summarize the effects of Mongol rule in Asia on Silk Road travel and trade. Be sure to discuss the importance of Marco Polo's journeys and the exchange of technology and culture.

1. what is significant about the power that russian federal cities are granted? 2. what is significant about official languages in russian republics? why would it matter?

The declaration of independence gave the americans concrete reasons for the revolution

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.