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Silk Road
Book 8 in the History of China series.
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The Silk Road explores the changing network of overland and maritime routes that connected China, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Rather than a single road, it presents a series of commercial and diplomatic corridors shaped by empires, oasis cities and mobile communities.
The book follows the movement of silk, horses, precious goods, technologies, religions and artistic forms. It also considers danger, disease and political disruption, explaining how long-distance exchange depended on local intermediaries and changed repeatedly from antiquity through the medieval period.
