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4 days ago · Silk Road, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward. Wools, gold, and silver went east. China also received Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism (from India) via the route. Read more about the Silk Road here.
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5 days ago · Russia’s Trans-Siberian Highway is a journey through extremes. Stretching 6,800 miles from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, it’s the longest continuous road in the world’s largest country. This road takes you through snowy forests, endless plains, and some of the most remote regions on Earth.
1 day ago · Carrying out reforms designed to ensure long-term stability, he transformed the Mongols' tribal structure into an integrated meritocracy dedicated to the service of the ruling family. After thwarting a coup attempt from a powerful shaman , Genghis began to consolidate his power.
1 day ago · Long before that, the Silk Road – which has existed in one form or another since the fourth century BC – breached any such divide. While trade was its raison d’être – Chinese silk, of course, but also salt, sugar, spices, ivory, jade, fur and other luxury goods – the road established deep social, cultural and religious links between disparate peoples.
1 day ago · The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. [1][2] The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ancestors of today's Taiwanese indigenous peoples. [3]
5 days ago · First inhabitants. The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were moa hunters, who probably arrived there as early as AD 1000. The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off.
3 days ago · Music tours and touring have been going on since music began, essentially. This short history reveals why and how it's changed.
