The Silk Roads were a decentralized network of trade routes that connected ancient cities across Eurasia. Goods, ideas … network, this paper finds that areas within 50 KM of the historic location of the Silk Roads have higher levels of economic …; we find that districts with populations closest to the Silk Roads have higher rates of inter-group marriage, suggesting a …

imports since 1860 -- Appendix 2: Exports in silk goods and tea, with total exports -- Appendix 3: Exports in cotton goods …

Since the concept of the Silk Road as an avenue of inter-civilizational exchange emerged more than 130 years ago … Jeong Su-il, a prominent Silk Road expert of South Korea, aims to rectify the common misconception of the Silk Road being a … result of the Silk Road, showing artifacts and written records to track the paths of such exchange along the Silk Road and …

Intro -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Silk on the Silk Roads. Exchange between East and West in … trade in South Asia during the Proto-Historic and Early Historic Period J. Mark Kenoyer -- 3. Word migration on the Silk … Road: the etymology of English silk and its congeners Adam Hyllested -- 4. Silk production and trade in the Roman Empire …