Silk Road Story Time, a free fest ... more accessible and less prohibitively expensive in the West by installing Constantinople (Byzantium) as a new source for silk, which removed the middlemen ...

When they reached Constantinople, they hatched the eggs ... This route, called the Silk Road (or the Maritime Silk Road, if the Indian Ocean route was used), spanned over 4,000 miles and cut ...

Spurs split off into India, where many Chinese Buddhists travelled to access ancient texts, into northern Africa and to Constantinople and then Greece. Trade along the Silk Road continued for roughly ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints ...

The Christianity of the Silk Road was primarily the form known as Nestorianism, after the teachings of Nestorius, a 5th-century patriarch of Constantinople who soon outraged the Roman and Byzantine ...

These included Xian in China and Constantinople, the modern-day Turkish city of Istanbul. Even today, the Silk Road continues to be significant. It provided a model for long-term trade between ...

At its most prosaic, the Silk Road was a series of trade routes that ... inching toward their terminus in Rome or Constantinople; heading east came glass, gold, silver and horses.

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The Silk Road enabled economic ... Chinese cities such as Xi'an to destinations including the Byzantine capital Constantinople and the sophisticated Islamic metropolis Baghdad.