This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, beliefs and inventions. Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no ... in ...

Polo traveled the Silk Road, a medieval trade route connecting Europe to Asia, between 1271-95, spending 17 of those years in China as a prominent figure in the flourishing Mongol Empire under ...

He used it to refer to a loose network of pre-modern overland trade routes, which at their major points of activity during the Roman-Han and Mongol ... the Silk Road? This can mainly be attributed to ...