Del i serien New Approaches to Asian History

Empires of Ancient Eurasia

The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE - 250 CE

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvCraig Benjamin

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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 in common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions, and 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 drive our species inexorably along a path towards modernity.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-05-03
Mått157 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Approaches to Asian History
Antal sidor316
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107114968

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Craig Benjamin is Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He is the author of several books and numerous chapters and articles on ancient history, including Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of the World (Cambridge, 2015). Craig has filmed programs and courses for the History Channel and The Great Courses. He is a Past President of the World History Association and Vice President of the International Big History Association.

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. Rome 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.

'Craig Benjamin places the pastoral nomads of Central Asia - and their horses - at the center of the story of the First Silk Road Era, convincingly arguing that the Yuezhi and Xiongnu, two militarized nomadic confederations rarely even mentioned in surveys of world history, are responsible for this dramatic period of trade and cultural exchange.' Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Editor-in-Chief, Cambridge World History