Empires of ancient Eurasia : the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE / Craig Benjamin.
2018
D22 .B46 2018 (Mapit)
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Empires of ancient Eurasia : the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE / Craig Benjamin.
Author
Benjamin, Craig, author.
ISBN
9781107114968 (hardcover)
1107114969 (hardcover)
9781107535435 (paperback)
1107535433 (paperback)
9781108635400 (electronic book)
1107114969 (hardcover)
9781107535435 (paperback)
1107535433 (paperback)
9781108635400 (electronic book)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
xi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
D22 .B46 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
950/.1
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-297) and index.
Series
New approaches to Asian history ; 16.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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.
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.