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Topic: Belt and Road Initiative

The Registan, a historic public square in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Culture
Wednesday, 6/24, 04:38 AM

The Silk Road was never one road, and never called that

  • For 1,500 years a sprawling web of overland and sea routes carried silk, faith, technology and plague between China and the Mediterranean.
  • The romantic name we use for it was invented in 1877 — by a German geographer who never traveled most of it.

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