HIST-1106EL Quiz: Interest in Silk Roads Great Game
13 Nov 2020
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Asia: fall of greco-bactrian empires both recorded in china and mediterranean. 8th century: conquest of constantinople in the 15th century silk roads seen as cut off. Trans-ecological exchanges and the geography of the silk roads. Lack of awareness and understatement of importance of trans-ecological exchanges. Prehistory of the silk roads: pastoralist lifestyles occupied inner eurasian steppelands certainly before 3000 bce, mobile horse pastoralism with long reach and contacts and influence. Importance of trade: shown by vessels manufactured by pastoralists. Asia: thus, by 2000 bce silk roads were already functioning as system of exchange within and beyond eurasian steppes, pastoralists were the carriers and carved out trade routes across asia, including the. In standard historiography, the silk roads are seen around 200 bce; state sponsored by. China, but evidence shows that silk roads were functioning before and states just forcefully entered that trade network. In first millennium bce, evidence for intensification in trade within the steppes: exchange of motifs and styles.
