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The Silk Road Before Silk: How Ancient Trade Shaped Civilizations
In 138 BCE, the Han emperor Wu sent a minor court official named Zhang Qian on a diplomatic mission to the west. Captured by nomads, imprisoned for a decade, Zhang returned with news of distant civilizations never before known to China — Ferghana, Bactria, Parthia. His journey accidentally mapped the routes that would become the Silk Road. In this pilot episode, Lucas and Luna explore how long-distance trade networks emerged long before silk entered the picture — from obsidian exchange in Neolithic Anatolia to the lapis lazuli routes that connected the Indus Valley to Mesopotamia. They…
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