Ancient Coins of the Silk Road Box of 20 Beautiful SILVER Coins in Mahogany Box
Ancient Coins of the Silk Road. Box of 20 Beautiful SILVER Coins. In a Beautiful Mahogany-like Box. The Silk Road-essentially a highway between two of the world's largest empires (China and Rome) running through a third (Persia)-contributed to the cultural development of China, India, Persia, Arabia, north Africa, and all of Europe.
The Silk Road is not a single road, but rather a network of routes extending from the Far East to Europe, including such storied cities as Alexandria, Tyre, Samarkand, Herat, and Xanadu. Trade along these routes-essentially a highway between two of the world's largest empires (China and Rome) running through a third (Persia)-contributed to the cultural development of China, India, Persia, Arabia, north Africa, and all of Europe. The Silk Road became more than crude caravan tracks in the second century BCE, when Zhang Qian, an emissary of the Han Dynasty, made the trek across the deserts of western China and through the Hindu Kush mountains to what is today Afghanistan.
Learning of new lands to the west, he convinced Emperor Wu to expand Chinese trade routes. By the time Marco Polo set upon his famous journey to Asia in 1271, the Silk Road was at its peak. Only when Vasco de Gama became the first explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in the late fifteenth century did the Silk Road's influence begin to wane, as Europeans traders took to the quicker, less dangerous sea route to India. The name "Silk Road, " coined by the German academic Ferdinand von Richthofen a century and a half ago, is somewhat inaccurate.Genghis Khan used the route in his conquests of the early 1200s, and it was the Silk Road traders who carried the Black Death to Asia in 1347. The decline of the Silk Road was marked. The once-bustling streets of the Silk Road lay empty, and the cities that sprung up along the route are ruins buried in the sand. Many of these ancient places are known only by the coins they left behind. As I have done the same.
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- Composition: Silver