The Silk Road

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Despite having very different cultures and being separated by thousands of kilometers, Asia and Europe have been connected for thousands of years. Through a series of overland and sea trade routes, goods, ideas, and people were able to move from east to west and vice versa. These routes were responsible for some of history’s greatest cultural exchanges as well as some of its greatest disasters. Learn more about the Silk Road and how it shaped history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into their extensive online archives to explore history as it happened. With over 800 million digitized newspaper pages spanning three centuries, Newspapers.com provides an unparalleled gateway to the past, with papers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond. Use the code “EverythingEverywhere” at checkout to get 20% off a publisher extra subscription at newspapers.com. Noom Noom is not just another diet or fitness app. It’s a comprehensive lifestyle program designed to empower you to make lasting changes and achieve your health goals. With Noom, you’ll embark on a personalized journey that considers your unique needs, preferences, and challenges. Their innovative approach combines cutting-edge technology with the support of a dedicated team of experts, including registered dietitians, nutritionists, and behavior change specialists. Noom’s changing how the world thinks about weight loss. Go to noom.com to sign up for your trial today! Rocket Money Rocket Money is a personal finance app that finds and cancels your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps you lower your bills—all in one place. It will quickly and easily find your subscriptions for you –and for any you don’t want to pay for anymore, just hit “cancel,” and Rocket Money will cancel it for you. It’s that easy. Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions – and manage your expenses the easy way – by going to RocketMoney.com/daily Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Despite having radically different cultures and being separated by thousands of kilometers,
0:04.5	Asia and Europe have been connected for thousands of years.
0:08.0	Through a series of overland and sea trade routes, goods, ideas, and people were able to move from east to west and vice versa.
0:15.6	These routes were responsible for some of history's greatest cultural exchanges, as well
0:19.8	as some of its greatest disasters.
0:22.1	Learn more about the Silk Road
0:23.3	and how it shaped history on this episode by explaining exactly what the Silk Road was because there's a lot of confusion surrounding it.
0:48.8	The Silk Road was not a road, meaning it was not a singular route that connected Asia and Europe.
0:55.0	Moreover, some of the things that fell under the Silk Road weren't even roads.
1:00.0	At the time it was used, no one called the Silk Road, the Silk Road, sort of like how the term Byzantine
1:05.4	Empire was created after the fact.
1:08.2	And to make it even better, the Silk Road wasn't even necessarily about silk. The term silk road was popularized in
1:14.4	1877 by the German geographer Ferdinand von Ritovin who called it the
1:18.7	Zaidenstrassa or literally the silk road. The term silk Road is one that most people have probably heard and
1:25.3	are familiar with, but it's fallen out of favor amongst historians simply because of all the
1:29.7	inaccuracies it entails. The terms Silk Roads or silk routes is now often used simply
1:35.5	because it's a bit more accurate. However I'm going to continue to use silk
1:39.3	road for the rest of this episode but keep in mind that the term Silk Road is more of a
1:44.1	metaphorical one than a literal one. It refers to all of the trade routes between
1:48.7	east and west and not necessarily even trade routes on land.
1:52.6	Even though the term is most closely associated
1:55.2	with the land routes that went through Central Asia.
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