Question

What is 13th century world System ?​

Answer 1

The Silk Road was an informal trade network by land and by sea characteristic of the 13th Century world system. ... The Straits of Malacca, through which the sea route of the Silk Road passed in the 13th Century, still facilitate a majority of contemporary global trade.

Answer 2

THE 13th CENTURY WORLD SYSTEM WAS:
The Silk Road was an informal trade network by land and by sea characteristic of the 13th Century world system. The Mongol Empire under the rule of Kublai Khan functioned as the hegemon of this world system and according to historian Janet Abu-Lughod, the Mongols created “an environment that faciliatated land transit with less risk and lower protective rent.”They opened a route for trade over their territories that allowed for the vast generation of wealth and peace across their domain. Marco Polo, the third of the Polo brothers to travel the Silk Road, detailed the trade conditions and commodities in his travel[1] logs: “the riches of those Islands is something wonderful, whether in gold or precious stones, or in all manner of spicery.”[2] The movement of people like Marco Polo and goods like gold and spices across the Silk Road network lead to the flourishing of the region under the Mongol Empire. Though the network eventually disintegrated through internal dissension and political fragmentation under Genghis Khan and the spread of the black plague, elements of it still function in international trade today. The Straits of Malacca, through which the sea route of the Silk Road passed in the 13th Century, still facilitate a majority of contemporary global trade. Additionally, after the end of the Pax Mongolia, books published in Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin, Hindi and Chinese dialects established Kublai Khan as a global figure, indicating the beginnings of a Pacific culture. [3] Movement of people and goods across the 13th Century Silk Road set the stage for the development of the Pacific World.