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Introduction |
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PART I Landscape of the Silk Road: From the Bronze Age to the Beginning of Historical Records |
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1 Kongquehe Bronze Age Culture: A Page of Early Eurasian History |
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2 Tocharian Controversy: A Mobile Language Landscape of Central Asia |
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3 Aramaic in the 1st Millennium bce: Its Reception and Diffusion |
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4 Qirqi'z, a People in the Forest and on the Steppe |
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5 Invention and Spread of Horse Chariots Around Afro-Eurasia |
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6 Horse Wagon With Bronze Wheel Felloe From Zhouyuan - Implication to the Exchanges Between the East and West |
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7 Natural and Cultural History of the Camel |
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8 Cannabis and Other Plants With Peculiar Properties on the Silk Road |
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PART II Pastoral Nomads and Agricultural Societies |
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9 Horse Archery and the Rise and Fall of Nomadic Empires on the Eurasian Steppe |
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10 The Kushans, viz. the Da YuezhI: A Century-Long Fallacy |
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11 Looking for the City of Horse: Mingtepa During the Time of Dayuan Kingdom |
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12 Qirqiz/Kyrgyz, a People Lived Between Empires |
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221 | (19) |
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13 Images of Knights on the Great Silk Road |
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PART III Silk Trade and Caravan Cities |
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14 Rise and Demise of Jingjue Kingdom, a Case of Tarim Oasis Politics |
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263 | (13) |
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15 Astana, Jiaohe, and Other Turfan Cemeteries: The Movement of People, Ideas, and Objects in Gaochang Kingdom (442-640) |
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276 | (17) |
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16 Turfan, the Frontier Transmitting Smallpox to Tang China |
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293 | (4) |
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17 Caravan Cities in the Roman Near East: Palmyra and Petra |
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18 The Chitral Yaßyu and a Route Southward in the 1st Century BCE |
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19 Kabul and the Regional Centers of Eastern Afghanistan in Their Historical Perspective |
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336 | (18) |
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20 Roads of Swat: New Perspectives |
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21 The Silk Road and the "Cotton Road": Buddhist Art and Practice Between Central Asia and the Western Deccan |
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22 Egyptian Textiles and Networks of Exchange Prior To and Following the Arab-Islamic Conquest |
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23 Sino-Arabian Economic and Cultural Exchanges From the 8th to the 15th Centuries |
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PART IV Empires and Religions |
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24 Elephants, Greeks, and Gold: The Silk Road in the Age of Hellenistic Empires |
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25 The Western Lord of Treasures - Viewing the Byzantine Empire From Tang Dynasty Chang'an |
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26 Sogdian Religion Along the Silk Road: Variations of Zoroastrianism in Medieval China |
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452 | (13) |
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21 Buddhist Propagation and Language Barriers |
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28 Silk-Horse Trade Between the Tang Empire and the Xiagasi (Kyrgyz) |
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29 Roman Silk Trade and Markets |
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30 Christian Discourses About Silks in Antiquity |
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31 The Creation and Spread of Tiraz Textiles Across the Silk Roads |
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32 Virtual Silk Roads: Objects, Exhibitions, and Learners |
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