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The Khazar Khaganate and the Silk Road Slave Trade
This episode of Trade Routes That Changed Human History Forever digs into the Khazar Khaganate, a Turkic empire that dominated the northern Silk Road from the 7th to 10th centuries. Lucas and Luna explore how the Khazars built a powerful state on the Volga and Don rivers, converting to Judaism as a strategic neutral identity between Christian Byzantium and Muslim Caliphates. They became central to the massive slave trade flowing from Eastern Europe to the Islamic world—capturing and selling Slavs, Finns, and others through markets like Itil and Samandar. The episode covers the Radhanite…
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