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THE IRANIAN-GEORGIAN BRANCH OF THE SILK ROAD IN I-IVTH CENTURIES |
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时间：2009-7-24 13:48:35 来源：不详
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a during communicating with the West.[7] Thus, “the Parthians were early intermediaries in the Rome to China overland commercial system.”[8] And in the West, it is known that firstly in 100 A.D. one Macedonian merchant named Maës Titianos sent some persons to the East[9] to investigate this route.[10] Under the information given by them Ptolemaios has given to us some data about the Silk Road through Marinus of Tyr, “the great geographer” (about 110 A.D.).[11] According to these information, there were two main routes of the Silk Road by the land and sea. The Caravan trade was going on from the West [the Mediterranean countries] to the East because the countries that needed to silk were the countries in the West, and the Roman Empire was one of those countries. The Empire began to investigate other routes in order to carry out the silk trade with the Kushan Empire in the East due to the Parthian obstacle. “The Kushans controlled essentially what is today modern Afghanistan, territories to the lower Indus valley, and eventually regions westward to Fars Province”. Besides, “[they] 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ... 下一页 >> |
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