Over two millennia ago, the Chinese were already selling silks along the maritime Silk Road and the continental Silk Road, which also provided major channels for East-West exchanges in arts ...
Trade over land and sea that began two thousand years ... Waves of Fortune: China's Maritime Silk Road is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV ...
Transportation in North China was land based, using pack animals and drawn carts ... Other trade routes competed with the Silk Road, including maritime trade from southeastern ports across the South ...
If land-locked Afghanistan ... China’s New Silk Road consists of a new economic belt of connective infrastructure westward into Eurasia and a new maritime “road” connecting Asia not only ...
oranges went (via the maritime route) from China to the Mediterranean world; grapes went from the western reaches of the Silk Road to China. These examples and dozens more that could be mentioned make ...
The Silk Road ... We think of it as a land route, like Marco Polo’s to the court of Kublai Khan; it turns out that part of the road was maritime and on rivers. It’s rather a brilliant way ...
Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...
Once upon a time, in the high and far off days of long ago, there was a beautiful princess who lived in the land of silk ... deserted city on the fabled Silk Road. "I think the Silk Road, in ...
Originally from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, four of the iconic 12-piece Bronze Zodiac Heads have reunited in Macau. These 18th-century masterpieces had once adorned a water clock fountain ...
It is, therefore, no surprise that a new international trade route called ‘the Arctic Silk Road’ is getting a ... of melting Arctic ice to open new maritime pathways. Experts say it could ...
From the ancient, rugged routes to the modern 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, trade routes between China and other countries have expanded significantly. Today, Liubao tea is distributed globally, ...
Xi Jinping envisions Egypt as a hub for China's Belt and Road initiative.