The Effects of Global Trade and Conquest on Society and Culture from 100 CE to 1400 CE
By Alex Voutov
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Zhang Qian, an envoy sent by Chinese Emperor Wu Di (140 B.C. 87 B.C.) of - the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions 2,100 years ago.
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/sites/default/files/knowledge-bank-article/New%20Discoveries%20on%20Ancient%20Silk%20Road.pdf -
Not only culture spread along trade routes. Sadly, many perished from the spread of the Black Death as it also traveled along trade routes and spread through the mixing of cultures at times of war and peace. -
Europe's manorial societies helped develop the structures and institutions that would lead to the medieval commercial revolution -
Indeed, music along the Silk Road illustrates overarching regularities not only in the way it is physically produced, but also in the role it plays in society and culture. In music, as in other aspects of culture, the history of the Silk Road has largely been the history of interaction between two large cultural domains: the sedentary world and ...
https://festival.si.edu/2002/the-silk-road/music-and-musicians-along-the-silk-road/smithsonian