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A road as an empire: some remarks about the most important ancient periods and powers of and along the Silk Road
heiko conrad
2021
This paper was presented at the workshop “Goods, Languages, and Cultures along the Silk Road” at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, October 18 and 19, 2019. While many contributions to the workshop focused on recent developments in China’s current “New Silk Road” politics, on forms of communication, and on contemporary exchange of goods and ideas across so-called Silk Road countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia and with China, this short essay focuses on the history of the so-called Silk Road as an important transport connection. Although what is now called the “Silk Road” was not a pure East-West binary in antiquity but rather developed into a network that also led to the South and North, the focus here will be on describing the East-West connection. I will start with a few brief remarks on the origins of the connection referred to as the Silk Road and will then introduce the different great empires that shaped this connection between antiquity and the Middle Ages through mil...
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Global Trade and Cross-Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road: Cities and Lives Reconstructed through Archaeological Findings
Lin Hang
Journal of Urban History, 2019
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History Revisited in Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads : A New History of the World
Dr Ratan Bhattacharjee
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a brilliant piece of historical writing that offers the roadmap of the epic history of the crossroads of the world—the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.
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GENESIS OF THE SILK ROAD: STAGES OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Doctor of Philology, prof
Bekhzod Ochilov
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The Silk Roads, 300 BCE to 1700 CE: Connecting the World for Two Millennia
Danielle Mihram
The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2021: Official Conference Proceedings, 2021
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Many Belts, Many Roads: China and the Islamic World, c.600AD-Present
John Chen
2019
This seminar invites you to explore the history of interactions between China and the Islamic world across the greater Indian Ocean region, sometimes called the “maritime Silk Road.” It will focus especially on Muslims living in China itself, who played a particularly important role bridging these diverse spaces and cultures. Temporally and spatially broad, the course covers the 1,400 years since the rise of the Tang Dynasty to the east and Islamic societies to the west. For most of those fourteen centuries, China and the Islamic world boasted the largest cities on earth, such as Chang’an, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Beijing, Cairo, and Constantinople. Before European expansion, flows of people, goods, and ideas between those urban foci accounted for the majority of the world’s economic activity and some of its richest cultural achievements. Those complex exchanges have left some of the least understood yet quietly consequential legacies for the more recent era of nationalism, Western geopolitical dominance, and “China’s rise.” This seminar offers multiple ways of understanding Chinese, Islamic, and global history, and illuminates aspects of contemporary Chinese state and society, intra-Asian exchange, and international relations. It will encourage you to think (and think again) about both interconnectedness and difference in the context of greater Asia. It will demand that you look beyond the framework of the nation-state, but will also ask you to contemplate how nationalisms have shaped understandings of the pre-national past. It will invite you, furthermore, to consider whether our basic definitions of “China” and “Islam” adequately account for the connected histories we will discuss. Specific themes will include community formation, material exchange, texts and transculturation, art and architecture, religious thought and practice, border-crossing and mobility, border-making and inequalities, state-building and state-minority relations, the transformations and disruptions of the European colonial era, the transition from dynastic empires to modern nation-states, processes of ethnicization and minoritization, and the “presence of the past.”
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Review in English of: “Craig Benjamin, Empires of Ancient Eurasia. The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE–250 CE, Nueva York, Cambridge University Press, 2018” (316 pp)
Francisco Miguel Ortiz-Delgado
Eras Journal, 2020
Brief recension of book about Ancient history and the links between Rome and the "East"
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Christopher I.Beckwith . Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present . Princeton : Princeton University Press . 2009 . Pp. xxv, 472. $35.00
T. H. Barrett
The American Historical Review, 2010
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The Silk Roads in History
Daniel Waugh
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Peter Brown, “The Silk Road in Late Antiquity,” in Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman, eds., Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East – West Exchange in Antiquity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), 15–22
Peter Brown
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