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There was no Silk Road. There was no single route, no central administration, no continuous caravans walking from Xi'an to Constantinople. The phrase was coined by a German geographer in 1877 to describe something more diffuse and important — a sustained network of overland and maritime trade across Eurasia. Key sections include: The Silk Road.; Opening The road that wasn't a road.; Chapter I The geography.; Chapter II What moved.; Chapter III Silk.; Chapter IV Samarkand.; Chapter V Bukhara.; Chapter VI Kashgar.; Chapter VII Khotan and the southern oases.; Chapter VIII The Sogdians..
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