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The Silk Road in World History (Hardcover)
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The Silk Road in World History (Hardcover)
Series: New Oxford World History
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The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade
routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the
Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the
borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the
Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence
and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their
quest for horses, fragrances, and spices, gems, glassware, and
other exotics from the lands to their west, the Han Empire extended
its dominion over the oases around the Takla Makan Desert and sent
silk all the way to the Mediterranean, either through the land
routes leading to the caravan city of Palmyra in Syria desert, or
by way of northwest India, the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, landing
at Alexandria. The Silk Road survived the turmoil of the demise of
the Han and Roman Empires, reached its golden age during the early
middle age, when the Byzantine Empire and the Tang Empire became
centers of silk culture and established the models for high culture
of the Eurasian world. The coming of Islam extended silk culture to
an even larger area and paved the way for an expanded market for
textiles and other commodities. By the 11th century, however, the
Silk Road was in decline because of intense competition from the
sea routes of the Indian Ocean. Using demand and supply as the
framework for analyzing the formation and development of the Silk
Road, the book examines the dynamics of the interactions of the
nomadic pastoralists with sedentary agriculturalists, and the
spread of new ideas, religions, and values into the world of
commerce, thus illustrating the cultural forces underlying material
transactions. This effort at tracing the interconnections of the
diverse participants in the transcontinental Silk Road exchange
will demonstrate that the world had been linked through economic
and ideological forces long before the modern era.
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