Caption

The Eurasian Steppe Route and the Silk Road in Mongol Times

Summary

Map shows Main Steppe Routes, Main Connecting Routes, and Silk Road. It additionally indicates the Varangian and Saracen Routes.

The Silk Road was a main route for the export and import of medicinal products and spices, as well as silk, particularly during Greco-Roman times.

Source

To the Ends of the Earth: The Great Travel and Trade Routes of Human History (p. 94)

Facts on File Publications, New York and Oxford, 1984.

Copyright

Irene M. Franck and David M. Brownstone.

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