Text 1: Historian Park argues that the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century were uniquely destructive. Cities were leveled, populations massacred, and irrigation systems wrecked across Persia and beyond. Some regions, Park notes, did not recover their pre-Mongol populations for centuries.
Text 2: Historian Singh accepts the destruction but emphasizes that Mongol rule, once established, opened trade routes and accelerated cultural exchange across Eurasia. The Pax Mongolica connected China, Persia, and Europe in ways that enabled the spread of technology, religion, and even bubonic plague. Mongol legacy, Singh argues, is mixed.
Both authors would most likely agree that
- A
the Mongols had no impact on later trade.
- B
the Mongol Empire never existed.
- C
the Mongols caused no destruction.
- Dcheck_circle
the Mongol conquests had massive consequences across Eurasia.
Explanation
Both accept the conquests' massive scope; they emphasize different consequences. A is shared. B, C, and D contradict at least one author.