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# Silk Road
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# Silk Road
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## Overview
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The Silk Road was a network of overland trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean world, facilitating the exchange of goods, ideas, religions, and technologies for over 1,500 years.
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## Key Facts
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- Period: ~130 BCE – ~1450 CE (ancient period focus: ~130 BCE – ~400 CE)
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- Length: ~6,400 km (main route)
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- Named by: Ferdinand von Richthofen (1877)
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- Key goods: Silk, spices, gold, glass, horses, precious stones
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## Route
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- Eastern terminus: Chang'an (Xi'an), China
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- Western terminus: Rome, Antioch, Constantinople
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- Key waypoints: Dunhuang, Kashgar, Samarkand, Merv, Ctesiphon, Palmyra
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- Crossed the Taklamakan Desert, Pamir Mountains, and Iranian Plateau [^1]
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## Cultural Exchange
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- Buddhism spread from India to China via the Silk Road
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- Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam traveled eastward
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- Technologies transferred: Papermaking, gunpowder (later), glassmaking
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- Diseases also spread, possibly including plague [^2]
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## Key Periods
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- Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE): Zhang Qian's missions opened the route (~130 BCE)
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- Kushan Empire (1st–3rd century CE): Facilitated trade across Central Asia
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- Roman demand for Chinese silk drove trade westward
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[^1]: Hansen, V. *The Silk Road: A New History* (Oxford, 2012)
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[^2]: Frankopan, P. *The Silk Roads: A New History of the World* (2015)
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## Review Queue
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