Empires of ancient Eurasia : the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE /
Benjamin, Craig,
Empires of ancient Eurasia : the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE / Craig Benjamin, Grand Valley State University. - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018 - xi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps - New approaches to Asian history .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-297) and index.
Pastoral nomads and the empires of the steppe -- Early China : prelude to the Silk Roads -- Zhang Qian and Han expansion into Central Asia -- The early Han Dynasty and the eastern Silk Roads -- Rome and the western Silk Roads -- The Parthian Empire and the Silk Roads -- The Kushan Empire : at the crossroads of ancient Eurasia -- Maritime routes of the first Silk Roads era -- Collapse of empires and the decline of the first Silk Roads era.
"The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships, carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The result was an underlying unity that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserved to this day, expressed in common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions, even disease and immunity patterns"--
9781107114968 (hardback) 9781107535435 (paperback
Intercultural communication--Eurasia
Commerce
Trade routes--Eurasia
950/.1
Empires of ancient Eurasia : the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE / Craig Benjamin, Grand Valley State University. - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018 - xi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps - New approaches to Asian history .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-297) and index.
Pastoral nomads and the empires of the steppe -- Early China : prelude to the Silk Roads -- Zhang Qian and Han expansion into Central Asia -- The early Han Dynasty and the eastern Silk Roads -- Rome and the western Silk Roads -- The Parthian Empire and the Silk Roads -- The Kushan Empire : at the crossroads of ancient Eurasia -- Maritime routes of the first Silk Roads era -- Collapse of empires and the decline of the first Silk Roads era.
"The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships, carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The result was an underlying unity that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserved to this day, expressed in common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions, even disease and immunity patterns"--
9781107114968 (hardback) 9781107535435 (paperback
Intercultural communication--Eurasia
Commerce
Trade routes--Eurasia
950/.1