Afghanistan has been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration.

From the Black Sea, trade could continue to Asia along the Silk Road, another ancient trade route.

Traditionally, Bursa was famous for being the largest center of silk trade in the Byzantine and later the Ottoman empires, during the period of the lucrative Silk Road.

The plague then travelled along the Silk Road and reached the Crimea by 1346.

The Black Death originated in or near China and spread by way of the Silk Road or by ship.

The disease may have travelled along the Silk Road with Mongol armies and traders or it could have come via ship.

This was a slow process which happened naturally through normal spreading of trade, with the silk and spice trade via the Silk Road being the prime vector.

This enabled the first opening of trading connections between China and the West, along the Silk Road.

Military victories in the Tarim Basin kept the Silk Road open, connecting Chang ' an to Central Asia and areas far to the west.

For one, Central Asia has historically been closely tied to its nomadic peoples and the Silk Road.

The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan ( d. 552 ) and his sons, succeeded the Rouran as the main power in the region and took hold of the lucrative Silk Road trade.

This war tightened the Ashina's grip of the Silk Road and drove the Avars into Europe.

The Crusaders would establish trade routes that would develop into the Silk Road, and open the way for the merchant republics of Genoa and Venice to become major economic powers.

The land served as " a gateway to India, impinging on the ancient Silk Road, which carried trade from the Mediterranean to China ".

Many ancient civilizations were influenced by the Silk Road, which connected China, India, the Middle East and Europe.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

The economically important Silk Road ( red ) and spice trade routes ( blue ) were blocked by the Ottoman Empire in ca.

She conducted a global search and acquired more than 300 items showcasing the history of the Silk Road.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

Ibn Battuta joined the royal caravan for a while, then turned north on the Silk Road to Tabriz, the first major city in the region to open its gates to the Mongols and by then an important trading centre as most of its nearby rivals had been razed by the Mongol invaders.

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Khazaria was one of the major arteries of commerce between northern Europe and southwestern Asia, as well as a connection to the Silk Road.

At the same time, the area of present Kyrgyzstan was an important link in the Silk Road, as attested by several Nestorian gravestones.

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" The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China ".

" The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China ".

" The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China.

" The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China.

( 2010 ) " The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China.

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

Munro, Mark Ingestire in Sweeney Todd by Dibdin Pitt, the poet in The Lost Silk Hat by Lord Dunsany, the Captain in Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw, Mister Four and Young Man in The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice, Don Juan in the play of the same title by James Elroy Flecker, two parts in Terence Gray's own play The Red Nights of the Tcheka, the Stage Manager in The Player Queen, also by W. B. Yeats, the Second Engineer in The Insect Play by the Čapek brothers, Prince Kamose in another Gray play called And in the Tomb, and finally in June 1927 Don Pelegari in Pirandello's Each In His Own Way.

She also anonymously wrote some fine songs in the Scottish dialect, including What ails this Heart o ' Mine ?, The Siller Croun ( alias And ye shall walk in Silk Attire ,) and the Waefu ' Heart: all three delightfully set to music c1800-1803 by the Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn, in his Scottish Songs ( Schottische Lieder-Hoboken XXXIa: 244, 260, 9 / bis ).

* Tuesday And Blue Silk ( 1959 )( Best Short Film award, New York Film Festival )

Traffic along the southern Silk Road routes greatly diminished with the Fall of Constantinople in the 15th century and development of the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope in the 16th century.

Silk is still considered the ideal fabric.

The tree is also known as the Java cotton, Java kapok, Silk cotton or ceiba.

* The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe.

In addition, many albums have been named with allusions to proverbs, such as Spilt milk ( a title used by Jellyfish and also Kristina Train ), The more things change by Machine Head, Silk purse by Linda Rondstadt, Another day, another dollar by DJ Scream Roccett, The blind leading the naked by Vicious Femmes, What's good for the goose is good for the gander by Bobby Rush, Resistance is Futile by Steve Coleman.

Silk production is an important cottage industry and contributes significantly to the economy.

* The Xiongnu occupy the Gansu area, the economically important province is situated along the Silk Road.

* Silk is a protected palace industry in the Byzantine Empire.

* Silk is exported to Europe from China.

On the contrary, the Silk Road passed Chinese products and inventions to the Western regions, including paper: papermaking originated in China and is considered one of Four Great Inventions.

* The Doctor Who episode Marco Polo is set in this year, where Doctor Who joins Marco Polo travelling along the Silk Road toward Beijing.

The city is most noted for its central position on the Silk Road between China and the West, and for being an Islamic centre for scholarly study.

Along with Bukhara, Samarkand is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, prospering from its location on the trade route between China and the Mediterranean ( Silk Road ).

The Travels of Marco Polo, where Polo records his journey along the Silk Road, describes Samarkand as a " a very large and splendid city ..." Here also is related the story of a Christian church in Samarkand, which miraculously remained standing after a portion of its central supporting column was removed.

* The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O ' Brian's early novels ( 1954 ) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.

Silk is produced year round in Thailand by two types of silkworms, the cultured Bombycidae and wild Saturniidae.

" Silk is widely produced today.

Silk is worn by people as a symbol of royalty while attending functions and during festivals.

Today silk is mainly produced in Bhoodhan Pochampally ( also known as Silk City ), Kanchipuram, Dharmavaram, Mysore, etc.

Silk is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm which is spun into a smooth fabric prized for its softness.

The Silk Road ( from ) or Silk Route is a modern term referring to a historical network of interlinking trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa.