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949_peewee 's review for:
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
by Peter Frankopan
p20 "Not for nothing has Palmyra [Syria] been called the Venice of the sands. Cities on the north-south axis likewise were transformed, with the most dazzling example at Petra, which became one of the wonders of antiquity thanks to its position on the route between the cities of Arabia and the Mediterranean."
p26 review of the inter-connectivity of the ancient world through trade and travel along trade routes
p39 "Christianity first spread east via the Jewish communities who had lived in Mesopotamia since the Babylonian exile. They received reports of Jesus life and death not in Greek translations, as almost all converts did in the west, but in Aramaic, the language of the disciples and of Jesus himself."
p57 borrowing across religions as they came into contact; also attacks on doctrines between religions
p90 "The Uighurs quickly became the pre-eminent force on Islam's eastern frontier...Faced with the rivalry of the Muslims, the Uihgurs tried to retain their own identity--deciding to convert to Manichaeism, perhaps as a middle ground between the Islamic world to the west and China to the east."
p111 "The mark they [Vikings] left, furthermore, was not minimal and transient, as it was in North America. In the east, they were to found a new state, named after the traders, travellers and raiders who took to the great water systems linking the Baltic with the Caspian and Black Seas. These men were known as Rus', or rhos, perhaps due to their distinctive red hair, or more likely thanks to their prowess with the oar. They were the fathers of Russia."
p151 ...'the westerners set about dividing the empire among themselves...From the very outset, men such as Bohemond had shown that the Crusades...which promised to defend Christendom, to do the Lord's work...could be hijacked for other purposes. The sack of Constantinople was the obvious culmination of the desire of Europe to connect and embed itself in the east."
p173 "The great achievement of Genghis Khan and his successors was not the ransacking of popular imagination but the meticulous checks put in place that enabled one of the greatest empires in history to flourish for centuries to come." Mongols established an administration to standardize, and replace tribal allegiances.
p26 review of the inter-connectivity of the ancient world through trade and travel along trade routes
p39 "Christianity first spread east via the Jewish communities who had lived in Mesopotamia since the Babylonian exile. They received reports of Jesus life and death not in Greek translations, as almost all converts did in the west, but in Aramaic, the language of the disciples and of Jesus himself."
p57 borrowing across religions as they came into contact; also attacks on doctrines between religions
p90 "The Uighurs quickly became the pre-eminent force on Islam's eastern frontier...Faced with the rivalry of the Muslims, the Uihgurs tried to retain their own identity--deciding to convert to Manichaeism, perhaps as a middle ground between the Islamic world to the west and China to the east."
p111 "The mark they [Vikings] left, furthermore, was not minimal and transient, as it was in North America. In the east, they were to found a new state, named after the traders, travellers and raiders who took to the great water systems linking the Baltic with the Caspian and Black Seas. These men were known as Rus', or rhos, perhaps due to their distinctive red hair, or more likely thanks to their prowess with the oar. They were the fathers of Russia."
p151 ...'the westerners set about dividing the empire among themselves...From the very outset, men such as Bohemond had shown that the Crusades...which promised to defend Christendom, to do the Lord's work...could be hijacked for other purposes. The sack of Constantinople was the obvious culmination of the desire of Europe to connect and embed itself in the east."
p173 "The great achievement of Genghis Khan and his successors was not the ransacking of popular imagination but the meticulous checks put in place that enabled one of the greatest empires in history to flourish for centuries to come." Mongols established an administration to standardize, and replace tribal allegiances.