Name: The History of the Silk Road: Trade, Faith, and the First Global Network (The Past That Built the Present) (en Inglés)
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Author: Huynh, Kiet
ISBN: 9798177176727

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The History of the Silk Road: Trade, Faith, and the First Global Network (The Past That Built the Present) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Independently published

Autor

Huynh, Kiet

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Inglés

N° páginas

178

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9798177176727

The History of the Silk Road: Trade, Faith, and the First Global Network (The Past That Built the Present) (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "The History of the Silk Road: Trade, Faith, and the First Global Network (The Past That Built the Present) (en Inglés)"

In 138 BCE a Han envoy named Zhang Qian rode west to find an ally against a steppe empire. He came home thirteen years later, twice captured, the mission a failure, with only two of the hundred men who rode out beside him — carrying instead the first Chinese account of a world reaching all the way to the Mediterranean. The Silk Road was never one road. The name dates only to 1877, coined by a geographer who never walked it. This book follows the real network across four chapters and sixteen centuries: the diplomats who opened it, the merchants who ran it, the monks who carried three religions along its routes, and the plague and Portuguese ships that ended its dominance. Inside, you'll find: A diplomat's accidental empire. Zhang Qian's failed mission, from capture by the Xiongnu to the "heavenly horses" report that reshaped Han strategy for a century. A battle that traded a war for a technology. At Talas in 751, roughly thirty thousand Tang troops lost to Abbasid and Karluk forces — and captured papermakers gave the Islamic world its first reliable paper supply. Contested numbers, stated honestly. The network runs 6,400 kilometers by one measure, over 10,000 by another. Both appear here, with the reason they disagree. The four ships that ended it. In May 1498, Vasco da Gama reached India by sea with about 170 men and came home with half of them, most lost to scurvy, not battle. This book assumes no prior background. Contested figures appear as ranges with sources named, never flattened into one confident number. No single road ever existed. What traveled along it changed the world anyway.