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Findings Show the Maritime Silk Road is Far From a New Idea

Findings Show the Maritime Silk Road is Far From a New Idea | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.newhistorian.com - December 18, 2016 9:49 AM
Archeologists working in suburban Shanghai have unearthed findings that show the shipping center was a Maritime Silk Road trading hub over 1,000 years ago. The findings were discovered in the ruins of Qinglong Town in the Qingpu District of Shanghai and include 6,000 porcelain artifacts and hundreds of thousands of porcelain fragments that originated from …

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The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade - Shannon Harris Castelo

The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade - Shannon Harris Castelo | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From ed.ted.com - August 20, 2014 10:01 AM
With
modern technology, a global exchange of goods and ideas can happen at
the click of a button. But what about 2,000 years ago? Shannon Harris
Castelo unfolds the history of the 5,000-mile Silk Road, a network of
multiple routes that used the common language of commerce to connect the
world's major settlements, thread by thread.
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