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The story of the Silk Highway is a popular issue among visitors, academics, economists, state gatherings, and daydreaming children for most centuries. In lots of ways the Silk Highway is seen everywhere, and it includes existed for as long as people have traveled across Eurasia. Its impact is broadly felt among the diverse peoples that live on the continent, through the unique regional art work and architectural styles, as well as in many films, books, educational studies, and organized tours specialized in the historic trade routes. At the same time, however, the Silk Highway is an entirely abstract technology, first coined by the 19th hundred years German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. There's never existed an individual route - let alone a road - that was used to copy goods, nor was silk the primary commodity exchanged across Eurasia. Instead, the Silk Highway is more a multi-layered narrative about the rise and fall of nomadic confederations and inactive societies, the loan consolidation and dissolution of kingdoms and empires, the exchange of commodities and fine crafts, and the copy and combination of ideas, religions, technology, technology, art, architecture, common myths, and legends.
