Frankopan does not hesitate to highlight the deep concerns over their human rights records, particularly focusing on China’s abuse of the Uighur Muslims in the western provinces where more than 100,000 have disappeared into “re-education camps”. If you were to give an alien a single book to understand the large-scale building blocks of history, this would be an excellent choice. Matthew C Rains/MCT via Getty Images Peter has weaved a tremendous story which at times almost seems apocryphal to someone like myself who is steeped with the popular historical narrative. Nations are desperate for control or to prevent control of this resource rich land. This is a world history from the perspective that the area between China and Europe is the “center of gravity” of everything important in human endeavors.
The spread of plague, the black death, is also well handled, with Frankopan pointing out that the decimation of Europe’s population had its advantages: because there were fewer workers, the price of labour rose, wealth was spread (a little) more evenly and, as a result, the cultural flowering that was the Renaissance happened.But this history is also occasionally lopsided. "Time, the creation of gods, the needs of commerce ""Time, the creation of gods, the needs of commerce "I am genuinely upset this book had to end. "By Silk Roads, Frankopan refers to both the land routes from the Middle East through central Asia and to the maritime passages connecting the countries clustered around the Mediterranean with the Indian and Pacific oceans. 'The New Silk Roads: the present and future of the world' condenses its timeline from 2350 years of history of the previous work to the three years since 2015.The original was sectioned into 26 chapters with titles such as 'The Road to Gold' that allowed Frankopan to nimbly charter the history of the world through the context of trade. 'The New Silk Roads: the present and future of the world' condenses its timeline from 2350 years of history of the previous work to the three years since 2015.
The road has been responsible for the spread of numerous religions over millennia, not just the Abrahamic ones, but Buddhism and Zoroastrianism spread along the route. We’d love your help. Usually, the history that interests me most involves great scientists or inventors or the kings, queens, and other rulers of the world from the distant past. The fact that Peter is a well respected hThis is the most unbiased and objective narration of history focussing on the rich history of countries on the old Silk Route. The Silk Road is not an old designation.
I'd touched on some of this history before but Peter Frankopan comes at events from a slightly different angle: essentially, his premiss is that early civilisation wasn't actually shaped by the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians - it was the Persians who provided the catalyst for much of the learning and development that established the world we now live in.This book covers the history of the area known as the Silk Road since it was first used, by traders circa 200 years BCE, up to very recent times. There is no such place as the “Arab-speaking world”. But if trade, or the promise of wealth, has always been the engine to drive people along the silk roads, other things have been carried along with it. If you are extremely well versed in history, then, to you, it might not read like the "new history of the world," the book promises. This spans such a large time frame specific to Western China, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe; the original Silk Roads. This almost certainly reflects the fact that the core of this region happens to his particular area of interest (Turkey, Persia, Central Asia and Russia) as a historian.
The spread of plague, the black death, is also well handled, with Frankopan pointing out that the decimation of Europe’s population had its advantages: because there were fewer workers, the price of labour rose, wealth was spread (a little) more evenly and, as a result, the cultural flowering that was the Renaissance happened.But this history is also occasionally lopsided. "Time, the creation of gods, the needs of commerce ""Time, the creation of gods, the needs of commerce "I am genuinely upset this book had to end. "By Silk Roads, Frankopan refers to both the land routes from the Middle East through central Asia and to the maritime passages connecting the countries clustered around the Mediterranean with the Indian and Pacific oceans. 'The New Silk Roads: the present and future of the world' condenses its timeline from 2350 years of history of the previous work to the three years since 2015.The original was sectioned into 26 chapters with titles such as 'The Road to Gold' that allowed Frankopan to nimbly charter the history of the world through the context of trade. 'The New Silk Roads: the present and future of the world' condenses its timeline from 2350 years of history of the previous work to the three years since 2015.
The road has been responsible for the spread of numerous religions over millennia, not just the Abrahamic ones, but Buddhism and Zoroastrianism spread along the route. We’d love your help. Usually, the history that interests me most involves great scientists or inventors or the kings, queens, and other rulers of the world from the distant past. The fact that Peter is a well respected hThis is the most unbiased and objective narration of history focussing on the rich history of countries on the old Silk Route. The Silk Road is not an old designation.
I'd touched on some of this history before but Peter Frankopan comes at events from a slightly different angle: essentially, his premiss is that early civilisation wasn't actually shaped by the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians - it was the Persians who provided the catalyst for much of the learning and development that established the world we now live in.This book covers the history of the area known as the Silk Road since it was first used, by traders circa 200 years BCE, up to very recent times. There is no such place as the “Arab-speaking world”. But if trade, or the promise of wealth, has always been the engine to drive people along the silk roads, other things have been carried along with it. If you are extremely well versed in history, then, to you, it might not read like the "new history of the world," the book promises. This spans such a large time frame specific to Western China, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe; the original Silk Roads. This almost certainly reflects the fact that the core of this region happens to his particular area of interest (Turkey, Persia, Central Asia and Russia) as a historian.