Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE - 250 CE (New Approaches To Asian History)

Synopsis

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.

The first accessible single-volume history of all of ancient Eurasia, offering an account of the major sedentary and nomadic states and empires of the region.

Conceptualizes the Silk Roads within big history, world-systems, and ancient globalizations to connect history and theory.

Offers a fresh approach to understanding historical developments in the ancient world.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781108585125

Related ISBNs:

9781107114968, 9781107114968

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Date of Addition:

06/16/18

Copyrighted By:

Craig Benjamin

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Communication

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.