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The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.
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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.
Category: Populated places along the Silk Road
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.
Category: Populated places along the Silk Road
Silk and gave
During this early period, Madagascar served as an important transoceanic trading port for the east African coast that gave Africa a trade route to the Silk Road and served simultaneously as a port for incoming ships.
Most notable among the new generation of " conscious " artists was Garnett Silk, who's positive spiritual message and consistent use of roots and rocksteady riddims gave him cross generational appeal with Caribbean audiences.
Hamilton gave a 1959 lecture titled “ Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking Cinemascope and Stereophonic Sound ", a phrase taken from a Cole Porter lyric in the 1957 musical Silk Stockings.
As a result, Merchants supported Buddhist Monasteries along the Silk Roads and in return the Buddhists gave the Merchants somewhere to stay as they traveled from city to city.
Norton Fitzwarren is located on the confluence of many fast flowig local water flows, and from the 1700s onwards became the base for many water-powered weaving mills, and after the riots in London, also many Silk Mills, which gave part of the area its name.
Silk and rise
At various points around the town centre, some of these roads combine, such as the A537 / A523 on the Silk Road section, giving rise to traffic congestion, especially at peak times.
Meanwhile, East Asia saw the rise of the Han Dynasty, which was comparable in power and influence to the Roman Empire that lied on the other side of the Silk Road.
The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism began to decline around the 7th century with the rise of Islam in Central Asia.
The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism essentially ended around the 7th century with the rise of Islam in Central Asia.
Silk and clusters
More technically, CBI was the first experiment to detect intrinsic anisotropy in the microwave background on mass scales of galaxy clusters ; it provided the first detection of the Silk damping tail ; it found a hint of excess power at high-l multipoles ( CBI-excess ) than expected from the ΛCDM model ; and it detected fluctuations in the polarization of the microwave background obtaining the first detailed E-mode polarization spectrum providing evidence that it is out of phase with the total intensity mode spectrum.
Silk and military
* Jiuquan in China is founded as a military outpost on the Silk Road to Central Asia.
Under the Han Dynasty, the Northern Silk Road was expanded to advance exploration and military purposes to the west.
Located in the western end of the Hexi Corridor near the historic junction of the Northern and Southern Silk Roads, Dunhuang was a town of military importance.
At its height, Alania was a centralized monarchy with a strong military force and benefited from the Silk Road.
As part of the Northern Silk Road running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River, it was the most important route from North China to the Tarim Basin and Central Asia for traders and the military.
A musician playing an instrument very similar to a suona is shown on a drawing on a Silk Road religious monument in western Xinjiang province dated to the 3rd to 5th centuries, and depictions dating to this period found in Shandong and other regions of northern China depict it being played in military processions, sometimes on horseback.
Along the Silk Road the folding seat of the Eastern Roman Empire made its way to China, where in various forms including the hu chuang — the " barbarian bed "— it " transformed the dress, architecture and lifestyle of the Chinese " In Han China the folding chair made its first literary mark in the 2nd century AD, used out-of-doors in a military rather than domestic setting, and from the way it was addressed in a poem by Yu Jianwu, written about 552
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