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

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

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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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