The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce

by VadimeElisseeff (Author), Doudou Diene (Foreword)

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  Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, merchants and monks, and soldiers and pilgrims.