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6 results for "silk-road"

W_5_17 Verified World Civilizations

W_5_17 — Göktürk Khaganate

The Göktürk (Old Turkic: 𐰜𐰇𐰛:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰, Kök Türk, "Celestial Turks") Khaganate (552–744 CE) was the first major Turkic-speaking empire to unite the Central Asian steppe, stretching at its height from Manchuria to the Black Se

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W_2_13 Credible World Civilizations

W_2_13 — Sogdian Civilization: Silk Road Merchants and Cultural Brokers

The Sogdians — an Eastern Iranian people centered in the fertile valleys of the Zerafshan and Kashkadarya rivers (modern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara) — were the quintessential merchant

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W_2_25 Verified World Civilizations

W_2_25 — Tocharian Civilization & Tarim Basin

The Tocharian civilization of the Tarim Basin (modern Xinjiang, China) represents one of the great puzzles of Indo-European studies: a population speaking the easternmost Indo-European languages — Tocharian A (Agnean) an

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W_5_08 Verified World Civilizations

W_5_08 — Mongol Empire and Nomadic Civilization

The Mongol Empire (1206–1368 CE) was the largest contiguous land empire in human history, stretching from Korea to Hungary at its peak under Genghis Khan's successors. Arising from the unification of nomadic Turko-Mongol

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D_2_20 Verified Sites & Artifacts

D_2_20 — Central Asian Archaeological Sites: Merv, Afrasiab, and Ai-Khanoum

Central Asia — the vast region spanning modern Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and northern Afghanistan — was one of the most intensely urbanized and culturally productive regions of the ancient world, despite its

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F_2_05 Verified Lost Connections

F_2_05 — Amber, Incense, and Spice Routes: Pre-Silk Road Exchange Networks

Long before the Silk Road connected Han China to Rome, extensive networks of luxury exchange linked the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula to Egypt, and South Asia to the ancient Near East. Baltic amber —

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