The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Silk Roads

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The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interlinking trade routes, collectively referred to as the Silk Road, led to an explosion of cultural and commercial transactions across Central Asia that had a profound have an effect on on civilization. On this second volume of his authoritative history of the region, Christoph Baumer explores the unique glide of goods, peoples and ideas along the dusty tracks and wandering caravan routes that brought European and Mediterranean orbits into contact with Asia. The Silk Roads, the creator shows, enabled the spread around the known world of Christianity, Manichaeism, Buddhism and Islam, just as in advance they’d caused Roman citizens to crave the exotic silk goods of the mysterious Far East. Tracing the upward push and fall of empires, this richly illustrated book charts the ebb and glide of epic history: the bitter rivalry of Rome and Parthia; the lucrative mercantile empire of the Sogdians; the founding of Samarkand; and Chinese defeat on the Battle of Talas (751 AD) by the forces of Islam.

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