Why 'Silk Roads', as a term, is more evocative than it is ac

Why 'Silk Roads', as a term, is more evocative than it is accurate


Why ‘Silk Roads’, as a term, is more evocative than it is accurate
An excerpt from ‘India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World’, by Jagjeet Lally.
The Silk Road in art.
The German traveller and geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthoften (1833–1905) travelled as part of the Eulenberg Expedition from Prussia to Asia, publishing his findings from 1877 to 1912 in five volumes. Richthofen and Sven Hedin were creatures of their time, moulded in the age of high imperialism when the competitive colonialism of the European powers raised the status of geography, cartography, and exploration.
Hedin and his counterparts garnered much of the fame that these expeditions brought, but it was Richthofen who first coined the term Seidenstrassen (Silk Roads) to describe and give meaning to the latitudinal string of sites found under the deserts of Inner Asia, thereby leaving a semantic legacy that has endured. Richthofen’s legacy has not gone unchallenged, and scholars have sought to clarify and critique the concept of “Silk Roads”.

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