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  • The Silk Road — Journey along the trade route that built the world with Jack Maddox

    The Silk Road — Journey along the trade route that built the world with Jack Maddox
    Apr 7 2026
    Join host Jack Maddox as he traces the legendary Silk Road, a 6,400-kilometer network that transported more than silk and spices—it carried empires, religions, ideas, and plagues that reshaped civilization. Discover how daring merchants, impossible deserts, and Mongol conquests connected East and West, building the world we know today.

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    1 min
  • The Silk Road — The Trade Route That Built the World - Pax Mongolica and the Death of Distance

    The Silk Road — The Trade Route That Built the World - Pax Mongolica and the Death of Distance
    Apr 7 2026
    Join host Jack Maddox as he explores the Pax Mongolica—when Genghis Khan's descendants unified the Silk Road under brutal Mongol rule, creating history's most sophisticated transcontinental network. From revolutionary postal systems to religious tolerance, discover how this century of connectivity transformed global trade, transmitted groundbreaking ideas, and ultimately carried the Black Death westward, reshaping civilizations forever.

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    27 mins
  • The Silk Road — The Trade Route That Built the World - Gods on the Highway

    The Silk Road — The Trade Route That Built the World - Gods on the Highway
    Apr 7 2026
    Jack Maddox explores how Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism spread along the Silk Road, transforming through cultural exchange. Discover how Greek sculptors shaped Buddha's image, how religions adapted across continents, and why the greatest cargo on ancient trade routes wasn't silk—it was gods.

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    26 mins
  • The Silk Road — The Trade Route That Built the World - The Merchants Who Invented Globalization

    The Silk Road — The Trade Route That Built the World - The Merchants Who Invented Globalization
    Apr 7 2026
    Host Jack Maddox explores how Zhang Qian's 13-year odyssey in 130 BCE revealed a vast trade network connecting China to the Mediterranean. Discover the Sogdian merchants who built ancient globalization's infrastructure, moving silk, technologies, and ideas across 6,400 kilometers of desert and mountains—creating the connected world centuries before anyone imagined it possible.

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    27 mins