Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220)In 73AD, Ban Chao set off on a diplomatic trip to western China and reopened the road, and later his assistant extended this route to the Persian Gulf. In 166AD, the Roman Empire sent an envoy to China. Then ties with the Europe were formed through this...
After Temujin died, his descendants founded Yuan Dynasty, inherited his spirit and five elements of his art of war — speed, suddenness, ferocity, variety of tactics, and iron discipline, and was able to go on to extend the Mongol Empire across most of Eurasia by conquering and creating vass...
Persian Royal Road, ancient road running from Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, across Anatolia to Sardis and Smyrna on the Aegean Sea, a distance of more than 2,400 km (1,500 miles). King Darius I built the road to facilitate communication throughout
empire that lasted for two centuries and greatly influenced the region’s subsequent ethnic character. Another Turkic people, theUighurs, rose to dominance in the 8th century, and their rule in turn gave way to that of theKhitansand then to the Karakhanids, a Turkic people closely related to...