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The 299 pages that link to Silk Road, each with the reason it gives.

• History of clothing and textilesRelated: Silk and other textiles moved through these routes alongside techniques and designs.

• History of East AsiaRelated: Its routes carried goods, religions, technologies, and people into and out of East Asia.

• History of the CaucasusRelated: Routes through the Caucasus linked regional towns to long-distance commerce and diplomacy.

• Karabakh carpetRelated: Long-distance exchange connected Caucasian carpets with broader routes for goods and designs.

• Mongol campaigns in Central AsiaRelated: Mongol political unification later altered movement along routes crossing Central Asia.

• Northwestern ChinaRelated: Its northern routes crossed Gansu and Xinjiang through key corridors and oasis towns.

• Pax SinicaRelated: Imperial stability could protect corridors that linked China with distant trading partners.

• Post-classical historyRelated: Its changing routes carried goods, technologies, and religious ideas across Eurasia.

• Science in the ancient worldRelated: Exchange across these routes helped transmit technologies and knowledge between ancient societies.

• ScythiaRelated: Long-distance exchange later linked steppe communities across regions described as Scythia.

• Scytho-Siberian artRelated: Its routes help explain the circulation of motifs and materials between steppe and settled cultures.

• Su DingfangRelated: Su’s Central Asian campaigns crossed strategic corridors used for trade and imperial communication.

• Tabriz rugRelated: Tabriz’s position on trading routes helped connect its carpets with distant markets.

• TaloqanRelated: Northern Afghanistan formed part of the wider overland exchange networks near Taloqan.