ASNS2627 Lecture 8: Week 8_ Rethinking Silk Route_ From the Past to the Present
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Week 8: rethinking silk route: from the past to the present. The idea of the silk road" has been revived under the grand economic project, belt and road. Initiative (bri) of china that seeks to connect asia, africa and europe through a network of routes, both overland and maritime. In this lecture we will revisit the ancient silk route as a conduit of exchange and interactions of commodities, people, knowledge and culture. The lecture will also discuss and make a broad comparison of the route in two different periods. *daniel c. waugh, the silk roads in history, expedition, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 9-22. German geographer ferdinand von richthofen coined the term the silk road. he was concerned about the movement of silk overland from east to west between the great civilisations of han china and rome . The huns established the first of the great inner asian empires and stimulated the beginnings of the silk roads.