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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Silk Roads"”.
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
… trading networks in history. On these so-called Silk Roads, Sogdian trading prowess reached its zenith during the first few centuries of the second half of the first millennium AD. As Christians, they possessed an additional identity, which also had tremendous geographic reach, membership in the …
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On the origin and spread of horse domestication
… post-domestication. I show that the ancient Silk Roads have played an important role in shaping the genetic structure of Eastern Eurasian horses, facilitating gene flow across deserts and high mountain chains. Finally, I provide further compelling evidence for the persistence of wild horses …
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Tamga: a fiscal form in post-Mongol Moscow
… analyses fiscal practice at either end of the ‘Silk Roads’, in Yuan China on the one hand and at Italian Black Sea trading outposts on the other. In both cases, the sources only recalcitrantly employ the term *tamga*, but reflect evidently shared fiscal practice. In chapter II, my focus moves …