the Silk Road trade started to deteriorate by about A.D. 1360. Already drained by the bursts of the bubonic plague during the Black Death around 20 years earlier, the trade was weakened even further ...

One of the most critical side effects of the Silk Road was the introduction of Buddhism into China during the 1st and ... That is, until the Mongol Empire became the largest governing body the ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic ... dynasty (C.E. 618-907), and the Mongol Khanate (13th and 14th centuries). The Mongols ...

During Roman rule ... A final revival occurred under Mongol control in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Silk Roads dwindled when the Ottoman Empire prevented Europe’s direct overland trade ...

even though it was during his lifetime that travel became easiest through the borderless Mongol empire. A man in September 2018 climbs dunes near Crescent Lake in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China.

During the 2nd century B.C., an alliance ... Northwest University’s archaeology department had a long tradition of Silk Road research. Xi’an, where the school is located, was once the capital of the ...

Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, in the mountains of Uzbekistan, were bustling medieval centers of Silk Road trade between ... around 1000 CE during the time of the Qarakhanid Empire.