Introduction -- Ancient and medieval European concepts of Asia -- Impulse to explore the East -- East Indian empires: Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, Spanish -- Resisting European encroachment: ...
Foreword / Lorenz Hurni -- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and ...
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What it was like to travel the Silk Road as a merchant
Traveling the Silk Road as a merchant wasn’t a single continuous expedition, but a series of interconnected routes stretching ...
This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dynamite comes from Ankara. Ten tons, and it takes two days. The truck climbs carefully, screwing 2,500 feet up the ...
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