diana7011 's review for:

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan

5.0

---

. It's not a simple history by no means, and the author, I can only imagine, spent hours doing research for this project. In his work we will learn more about the middle east-Asia from early accounts to recent years. Once it was an important trade route to satisfy the Wests want of fine china, silks, spices and other goods, then it became an important source for oil, the richest fields to be discovered. In the years between, we will learn of the birth of Mohammad and of Islam. The countries who took to the sea to discover new routes, discovering new lands to be explored and claimed. Later, how the east becomes more relevant as time carries forward, the missteps and misunderstandings. The rise and fall of great Kingdoms and governments. I must say I cringed when the author took us to parts of the story did not bode well for the countries of the west especially my own. It is history though and no amount of sugar coating is going to erase the facts. Well done and an education work. WWH3