Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Benjamin, Craig
Titre(s) : Empires of ancient Eurasia [Texte imprimé] : the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE - 250 CE / Craig Benjamin
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : xi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : New approaches to Asian history
Lien à la collection : New approaches to Asian history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-297) and index
The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations.
Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and
missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships carried their commodities,
ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The result was an
underlying unity that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserved to
this day, expressed common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions,
even disease and immunity patterns. In words and images, Craig Benjamin explores the
processes that allowed for the comingling of so many goods, ideas and diseases around
a geographical hub deep in central Eurasia. He argues that the first Silk Roads Era
was the catalyst for an extraordinary increase in the complexity of human relationships
and collective learning, a complexity that helped driver our species inexorably along
a path towards modernity--back cover
Sujet(s) : Route de la soie -- Antiquité
Commerce -- Eurasie -- Antiquité
Grandes puissances -- Eurasie -- Antiquité
Indice(s) Dewey :
950.1 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Asie - Des origines à 1162
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107114968. - ISBN 1107114969. - ISBN 9781107535435. - ISBN 1107535433. -
ISBN 9781108635400 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455808199
Notice n° :
FRBNF45580819
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Inroduction ; 1. Pastoral nomads and the Empires of the Steppe ; 2. Early China:
Prelude to the Silk Roads ; 3. Zhang Qian and Han Expansion into Central Asia ;
4. The Early Han Dynasty and the Eastern Silk Roads ; 5. The Roman Empire and the
Western Silk Roads ; 6. The Parthian Empire and the Silk Roads ; 7. The Kushan Empire:
At the Crossroads of Ancient Eurasia ; 8. Maritime Routes of the First Silk Roads
Era ; 9. Collapse of Empires and the Decline of the First Silk Roads Era ; Conclusion.
