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Silk Road
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.
The Silk Road — Ancient Arteries of Commerce
Ancient Arteries of Commerce, Culture, and Contagion
The Silk Road — Caravans across Eurasia
N The Silk Road Caravans across Eurasia ~ 200 BC · 1450 AD A history in thirteen panels I. Origins — A Han Envoy Heads West In 138 BC , Emperor Wu of the Han dispatched the diplomat Zhang Qian to find allies against the Xiongnu. He was captured for a decade, escaped, and returned with reports of vast civilizations beyond the Pamirs — Bactria, Parthia, Ferghana.