His daughters ruled nations that controlled the Silk Road, the favored route for ... guarded it for the Jin,” Broadbridge says. Under Alaqai’s rule, the Ongguts no longer protected the Jin.

when Genghis Khan and his successors unified most of Asia under one rule. Only with the dissolution of the Mongol empire did the Silk Road begin to fall apart, though trade between East and West ...

That is, until the Mongol Empire became the largest governing body the world had ever seen and reunited the Silk Road under the Khan's rule. Under the Mongol Empire, the Silk Road was at the ...

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 ...

During Roman rule, the traffic was intense ... A final revival occurred under Mongol control in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Silk Roads dwindled when the Ottoman Empire prevented Europe ...

Situated along the Zeravshan River in northeastern Uzbekistan, this magnificent city was once an important hub along the historic Silk Road ... under control of the great Turkic-Mongol warlord ...

On the morning of July 30, in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar ... 85% of the old city — an unpopular project that is well under way. It was outside the city, in Kashgar prefecture ...

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 ... "Harmony of Hearts" ...