Some would say that genetically speaking, the golden horde did what they were supposed to do.
Seafaring was not fully militarized at that point. Industrial revolution happened because of a miraculous coincidence. The sources of tin and copper where by the sea.
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the Chinese had unbelievable navy though. some crazy ideas of interiority (which Mughals didn't care for btw) hindered their advance. and if the west couldn't reach the Americas, the source of wealth required for industrial rev. couldn't be seized.
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Kublai knew that. He used the force of the Chinese navy but he didn't think about the supply chain on the sea. When mongols arrived in Japan, they managed to strike a heavy blow. Overtime, they got weaker because they thought of it as an expedition, not a military supply chain.
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