During the , the Mongols encouraged trading activities by foreign merchants. They reestablished the Silk Road. The Mongols welcomed the foreign merchants at Chinese ports. European merchants such as entered China during the time.

The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. ... By September 1692, the hysteria had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials