ANTH2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pamir Mountains, Ming Dynasty, Taklamakan Desert

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH2601
• Professor: all

Document Summary

The silk route served as the principal highway for trade and cultural exchange between the east and the west till the 13 century ad. Goods passed from one trade section to another in short segments. The chinese one belt one road initiative attempts to revive this route. The initiative has two routes, one overland route reaching outwards from trading hubs like yiwu to location as far as madrid and germany. The regions comprises five former soviet republics of kazakhstan, uzbekistan, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan and turkmenistan. China"s initiatives with railway lines running through the historical silk road region provides landlocked central asian countries with the connectivity to import and export goods. The term silk road refers to the overland trade route from the mediterranean across central asia to china. The overland silk road linked in the first century ad three great empires: china (the han), india (mauryas) and the mediterranean (rome). markets,