NOUN
- an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles); followed by Marco Polo in the 13th century to reach Cathay
How To Use Silk Road In A Sentence
- Speeding along the route of the ancient Silk Road, we passed between irrigated fields of melons, cabbages and sunflowers, part of the great oasis stretching eastwards from Tashkent.
- Georgia was also on one of the branches of the Silk Road, which carried trade from China and India to Europe.
- Xizang Tonglan (A comprehensive view of Tibet) (Taibei: Huawenshuju, 1969); for the early medieval ages, see Beckwith 1987 and Zhang Yun, Silu Wenhua: Tubo Juan (The Silk Road cultures: Tibet) (Hangzhou: Zhejiang Renmin Chubanshe, 1995); for the route between Chang'an, Tibet, and Nepal, see Lu Yaoguang 1989. back Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
- This old Silk Road linked China with the West in ancient times.
- This old Silk Road linked China with the West in ancient times.
- It was a major blow for the Penn Museum and scholars such as University of Pennsylvania professor Victor Mair, who has for decades been studying these mummies and the astounding collection of textiles, funerary objects, domestic articles, jewelry and religious pieces found in a region that became crucial to the Silk Road. Following controversy, mummies at Penn Museum remain objects of mystery
- This was a Silk Road which enabled the ancient men to peregrinate from West Asia.
- The most obvious features are the tall watchtowers scattered across the Silk Road to provide advance warning of Xiongnu attack.
- I was pinged this morning by Peter Quintas, who told me that Silk Road has acquired some moblogging technology.
- There are widespread opportunities that Afghanistan can take advantage of to build such strong and prosperous local economies, including energizing the traditional Silk Road trade network, using the nation's mineral wealth to support economic development, putting neglected agricultural areas back into production at a time when world food resources are under increasing pressure, and restoring traditional handicraft production, especially hand-woven carpets. Edward Corcoran: Afghanistan: Time to Build
