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ya, there were a bunch of trade routes along this path to all the different regions/cities. We just named the entire concept the "Silk Road" in the 1800s (it wa
by bwb 6mo ago
ya, there were a bunch of trade routes along this path to all the different regions/cities. We just named the entire concept the "Silk Road" in the 1800s (it was coined in 1877 by Ferdinand von Richthofen).
- ripe 6mo agoYes. Moreover: "While engaged in a survey of China, the baron was charged with dreaming up a route for a railway linking Berlin to Beijing. This he named die Seidenstrassen, the Silk Roads. It was not until 1938 that the term Silk Road appeared in English, as the title of a popular book by a Nazi-sympathising Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin." -- historian William Dalrymple https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/06/the-silk-road-still-casts-a-spell-but-was-the-ancient-trading-route-just-a-western-invention https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/06/the-sil...