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The Tea Horse Road: Ancient China's Other Great Trade Route
When we think of ancient Chinese trade, the Silk Road usually comes to mind. But there was another, equally vital network: the Tea Horse Road, a sprawling web of trails linking China's tea mountains to Tibet and beyond. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the origins of this trade to the Tang dynasty, when Tibetan kings first demanded Sichuanese tea for their butter-rich diet. They explore the pivotal Song dynasty shift, when the empire traded bricks of compressed tea for war horses from Tibetan and Mongol nomads—a state-run caravan system that moved tens of thousands of horses…
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