TY  - BOOK
N2  - The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The result was an underlying unity that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserved to this day, expressed common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions, even disease and immunity patterns. In words and images, Craig Benjamin explores the processes that allowed for the comingling of so many goods, ideas and diseases around a geographical hub deep in central Eurasia. He argues that the first Silk Roads Era was the catalyst for an extraordinary increase in the complexity of human relationships and collective learning, a complexity that helped driver our species inexorably along a path towards modernity--back cover.
AB  - The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The result was an underlying unity that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserved to this day, expressed common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions, even disease and immunity patterns. In words and images, Craig Benjamin explores the processes that allowed for the comingling of so many goods, ideas and diseases around a geographical hub deep in central Eurasia. He argues that the first Silk Roads Era was the catalyst for an extraordinary increase in the complexity of human relationships and collective learning, a complexity that helped driver our species inexorably along a path towards modernity--back cover.
T1  - Empires of ancient Eurasia :the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE /
AU  - Benjamin, Craig,
CN  - D22
CN  - D22
ID  - 945549
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Trade routes
SN  - 9781107114968
SN  - 1107114969
SN  - 9781107535435
SN  - 1107535433
TI  - Empires of ancient Eurasia :the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE /
ER  -