Under Alaqai’s rule, the Ongguts no longer protected the Jin. During Khan’s 1211–1215 and 1217–23 campaigns against the Jin Empire, Alaqai supplied her father’s troops with food , the ...

The Silk Road was a vast system of trade routes that stretched from the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an all the way to Rome on the Italian Peninsula. For more than 1,000 years, it was the most ...

Trade along the Silk Road continued for roughly two thousand years, waxing and waning at times as the territories it traveled through shifted hands. Trade was particularly robust during the Tang ...

Multiple ancient cultures converge at this city on the Silk Road in Central Asia, where historical attractions predate the ...

Good ideas and innovation travel easily—and far. Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes. This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, ...

In India, the ancient Silk Road covered seven main states with 12 ... Gartang Gali was used by the Mongol armies under Genghis Khan and his successors to invade India and establish their rule in ...

The self-declared "pro-crypto president" Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Tuesday.. Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black ...

As silk fabrics became all the rage in imperial Rome, explorers and merchants opened up land and sea routes, fostering not only commerce but a robust exchange of wisdom and beliefs.

Though trading via the Silk Road had begun thousands of years prior to the Mongol rule in China, ... 5 Non-fiction books to change your thinking under 200 pages. 3.

Under the hood of I2P, the Tor alternative that reloaded Silk Road Designed to make analysis attacks harder, I2P is built for hidden services. Sean Gallagher – Jan 13, 2015 5:00 pm ...

The land that is now Uzbekistan was once at the heart of the ancient Silk Road trade route connecting China with the Middle East and Rome. The country came under Russian control in the 19th ...

The vast Mongol Empire created by Genghis Khan in the 13th century is certainly well-known. But Mongolia's much longer links with the famous Silk Road are often overlooked or ignored by historians.