West to Constantinople. East to Xian. This network of commerce linked tens of millions of lives as far away as Africa and Southeast Asia. The Silk Road wasn’t a camel rut worn in the steppe.
The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium and a half, but it disintegrated in the 15th century when the Ottomans gained supremacy at Constantinople. Ottoman rulers of the day ...
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