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Silk Road Seattle – Karakorum and Cities along the Silk Road, posted at the web site of the University of Washington, 2004. Treasures of Mongolia – Karakorum, Mongolia, UNESCO Courier, by Namsrain Ser-Odjav, March 1986. William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols; Mongolian-German excavations (in German) "Karakorum" .
The Silk Road connected the ancient civilizations of Egypt and China, passing through Mongolia. Silk may have been brought to Egypt through this route as early as 3,000 years ago. The Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan (c. 1162–1227 AD) had established unified political authority through the length of the Silk Road from Beijing to Baghdad ...
The Silk Road [a] was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds.
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected many communities of Eurasia by land and sea, stretching from the Mediterranean basin in the west to the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago in the east.
The history of the Uyghur people extends over more than two millennia and can be divided into four distinct phases: Pre-Imperial (300 BC – AD 630), Imperial (AD 630–840), Idiqut (AD 840–1200), and Mongol (AD 1209–1600), with perhaps a fifth modern phase running from the death of the Silk Road in AD 1600 until the present.
The Hexi Corridor was the main route of the Silk Road. In the southeast the Silk Road led over some hills to the east-flowing Wei River valley which led to the North China Plain. South of the Khingan Mountains and north of the Taihang Mountains, the Mongolian-Manchurian steppe extends east into Manchuria as the Liao Xi steppe. In Manchuria, the ...
Mongolian and other scholars have suggested that the Xiongnu spoke a language related to the Mongolic languages. [187] [188] Mongolian archaeologists proposed that the Slab Grave Culture people were the ancestors of the Xiongnu, and some scholars have suggested that the Xiongnu may have been the ancestors of the Mongols. [27]
Silk Road, Oasis Route, Maritime Route The Steppe Route was an ancient overland route through the Eurasian Steppe that was an active precursor of the Silk Road . Silk and horses were traded as key commodities; secondary trade included furs, weapons, musical instruments, precious stones ( turquoise , lapis lazuli , agate , nephrite ) and jewels.