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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.
Detail of the Catalan Atlas depicting Marco Polo travelling to the East during the Pax Mongolica. The Pax Mongolica (Latin for "Mongol Peace"), less often known as Pax Tatarica [1] ("Tatar Peace"), is a historiographical term modeled after the original phrase Pax Romana which describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of ...
Ordu-Baliq [dn 1] (meaning "city of the court", "city of the army"; Mongolian: Хар Балгас, Chinese: 窩魯朵八里), also known as Mubalik and Karabalghasun, was the capital of the Uyghur Khaganate. It was built on the site of the former Göktürk imperial capital, 27 km north-to-northwest of the later Mongol capital, Karakorum.
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.
Along the Silk Road, it was quite the opposite: failure to maintain the level of integration of the Mongol Empire, and a resulting decline in trade, partially exacerbated by the increase in European maritime trade. By 1400, the Silk Road no longer served as a shipping route for silk. [citation needed]
Sayram Lake is located along the northern branch of the historic Northern Silk Road. [1] [2] The mountainous region it belongs had been largely uninhabited throughout history, but the valleys east of it was historically settled by Saka nomads and various Tocharian people such as Jushi and Wusun, and later by the Göktürks and Oirat Mongols.