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- - - - North: Easter Russia, Central Asia
      - South: China, India, Middle East, Medditeranean
  - - - Qin dynasty
        
        attacked by Xiongnu/Huns
        
        first chinese wall
        
        Han Dynasty
        
        Start Silk Road:
        First movement: mission of Chang Ch'ien sent by Han emperor Wudi to the West
        
        Why? contact with Yueh-chih to join forces against Huns.
        
        results: - trade possible - discovery of heavenly horses
        
        Traditional beginning: Big wild goose pagado in Xian. Buddhist temple build to collect Buddhist materials taken from India by Xuan Zang
      - Xian during T'ang dynasty an international centre of merchants fro Central-Asia
        
        China's golden age
  - - - Parthians had silk banners
        
        Romans convinced Parthians to be middle men for silk trade
        
        Parthians too expensive
        
        Roman merchants found new searoutes (South India) to get the silk from China
    - - Battle with Persian emperor Darius
      - Battle with India with King Porks
        
        2 C.E. Graeco-buddhist/Gandharan art was born with hellenistic influences in Peshawar valley
        
        first Budhha images
        
        Roman- Buddhist: Alexandria and Palmyra and India
        
        Graeco Iranian: Kushans
        
        Parthian sculptres
        
        adapted greek alphabet
        
        Kushans: Under which Gandharan art flourished
        
        Ruler Kanishka created Buddhist sculpteres since he was a patron of Buddhism
        
        Graeco-Bactria
        
        Main route from CentraL-Asia! Gandhara connected India with Mediterranean
        
        promoting trading contacts with Greek, Indian, Central Asian cultures
        
        especially due to Graeco- Iranian, Graeco-Bactria new kingdoms
      - Conquered Macedonia, Achaemenid Persia, Persia, Bactria, Sogdiana, Pakistan, India
        
        he became aware of the riches of the East: Silk
        
        Trading contact were made
        
        cultural and religious exhanges
        
        caravan cities grew