Tea-Time Talks: The Silk Road | Martin Randall Travel
posted on 16/03/21 For insight into what ‘global’ meant in times before globalisation, we have the Silk Road. A network of sometimes secure and other times fraught traders’ tracks crisscrossed 2,000 years of civilisation between the Mediterranean, India and China, and in the middle, the cities of Central Asia caught glimpses of the world on all sides. These cities and their transregional interactions across Eurasia gave shape to important phenomena, such as Sufism, the Mongol Empire, and Uyghur culture, and left their mark on world history. This series explores key social, cultural an...