... the sources of their wealth. The threat of the Empire of Genghis Khan in the thirteenth centuryaroused the interest of Europe, and the bold friars, Carpini and Rubruquis, made their way to the ... was the richer and the more powerful of the two, because the trade of the FarEast was beyond comparison the most lucrative in the world. Aiming straight at the source of the greatestprofits the ... 1717, to the foundation of New Orleans at the mouth of the great river, and the organisation of the colony of Louisiana. But the whole of the intense and systematic imperial activity of the French...