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The Silk Road's Unsung Heroes: The Sogdian Merchants
Before the Mongols, before Marco Polo, a single network of merchants from Central Asia dominated the Silk Road for over a thousand years. The Sogdians, hailing from the fertile valleys of Samarkand and Bukhara, were the invisible hand moving silk, spices, and ideas between China and the West. This episode follows their rise from the collapse of the Han dynasty to their golden age under the Tang, their crucial role in translating Buddhism and Manichaeism across Eurasia, and their tragic fall at the hands of the Arab conquests. We meet figures like An Lushan, the Sogdian-Turk general who nearly…
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