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Mongol warlords simply extorted massive tribute from princes
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Ruling over vast foreign lands is tedious, so the Golden Horde outsourced the busywork. Instead of occupying the freezing territories directly, they just forced local princes to violently collect massive amounts of silver from their own desperate people and hand it over annually, essentially running a giant geopolitical protection racket.
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