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000945549 1001_ $$aBenjamin, Craig,$$eauthor.
000945549 24510 $$aEmpires of ancient Eurasia :$$bthe first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE /$$cCraig Benjamin.
000945549 264_1 $$aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$$aNew York, NY :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2018.
000945549 264_4 $$c©2018
000945549 300__ $$axi, 304 pages :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c24 cm.
000945549 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000945549 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000945549 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000945549 4901_ $$aNew approaches to Asian history
000945549 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 284-297) and index.
000945549 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- 1. Pastoral nomads and the Empires of the Steppe -- 2. Early China: Prelude to the Silk Roads -- 3. Zhang Qian and Han Expansion into Central Asia -- 4. The Early Han Dynasty and the Eastern Silk Roads -- 5. The Roman Empire and the Western Silk Roads -- 6. The Parthian Empire and the Silk Roads -- 7. The Kushan Empire: At the Crossroads of Ancient Eurasia -- 8. Maritime Routes of the First Silk Roads Era -- 9. Collapse of Empires and the Decline of the First Silk Roads Era -- Conclusion.
000945549 520__ $$aThe 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.
000945549 650_0 $$aIntercultural communication$$zEurasia$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000945549 650_0 $$aCommerce$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000945549 650_0 $$aTrade routes$$zEurasia$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000945549 651_0 $$aEurasia$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000945549 651_0 $$aSilk Road$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000945549 830_0 $$aNew approaches to Asian history ;$$v16.
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