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Summary of “Silk Routes: Two Thousand Years of Trading”
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In the podcast “Silk Routes: Two thousand Years of trading,” the participants; Bridget Kendall, Professor Valerie Hansen, Dr. Susan Whitfield, and Professor Tamara Chin, discuss how goods and produce were traded in Asia countries such as China, Iran, Uzbekistan, India, and Afghanistan. The podcast focuses on how the ancient patterns of trading networks encouraged people to engage in trade by traversing through deserts, mountains, and plains of China. The participants in the podcast indicate that the trade between China and other Asian countries was known as the Silk Road yet there was no single road connecting China with other Asian countries. In this regard, Professor Hansen states that the trade between China and other Asian countries can also be referred to as the Ammonium Chloride Road or Central Asia Overland Trade. Similarly, Dr Whitfield argues that the Silk Road trade can also be referred to as the “Step Child of Modern Globalization due to its significant impact on the Chinese society.
As the name suggests, one might think that Silk Routes were all about silk trading. However, the podcast ascertains that other goods such as glass were traded. Additionally, animals such as horses and slaves were also traded between China and other A...