The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi)...
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Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym...
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), known in China as the One Belt One Road and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, is a global infrastructure...
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Ross Ulbricht (redirect from Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk road))
life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service...
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a 2015 non-fiction book written by English historian Peter Frankopan, a historian at the University of Oxford...
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Silk Road is a 2021 American crime thriller film, written for the screen and directed by Tiller Russell based on the Rolling Stone article "Dead End on...
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The Maritime Silk Road or Maritime Silk Route is the maritime section of the historic Silk Road that connected Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Indian subcontinent...
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Look up Silk Road in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Silk Road is a number of trade routes across the Eurasian landmass. Silk Road may also refer...
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The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected many communities of Eurasia by land and sea, stretching from the Mediterranean basin...
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The Northern Silk Road is a historic inland trade route in Northwest China and Central Asia (historically known as the Western Regions), originating in...
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of the ancient Silk Road and historical sites along the route. On June 22, 2014, UNESCO designated a 5,000 km stretch of the Silk Road network from Central...
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The Silk Road Fund (Chinese: 丝路基金) is a China Government Guidance Fund to foster increased investment in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative (formerly...
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Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The protein fiber of silk is composed mainly of fibroin and is most commonly...
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Century Maritime Silk Road (Chinese: 21世纪海上丝绸之路), commonly just Maritime Silk Road (MSR), is the sea route part of the Belt and Road Initiative which...
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route. It is also sometimes referred to as the "Southern Silk Road" or "Southwest Silk Road." There are numerous surviving archaeological and monumental...
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Silkroad (arts organization) (redirect from The Silk Road Ensemble)
Silkroad, formerly the Silk Road Project, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among...
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strategy New Silk Road Initiative, a US initiative for economic integration in Central Asia New Silk Road, a 2018 album by Maksim Mrvica Silk Road, a network...
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Mahāyāna Buddhism entered Han China via the Silk Road, beginning in the 1st or 2nd century CE. The first documented translation efforts by Buddhist monks...
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Silk Road Numismatics is a special field within Silk Road studies and within numismatics. It is particularly important because it covers a part of the...
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The Silk Route, or Silk Road, was a network of Eurasian trade routes. Silk Route may also refer to: Silk Route (band), an Indian music band Caucasus Airlines...
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reach other places in the world, the art of silk production remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at 114 BC. Even after trade opened, China...
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Maritime Silk Road is the maritime portion of the historic Silk Road. Maritime Silk Road may also refer to: 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, a Chinese...
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Darknet market (section Silk Road and early markets)
on Tor were darknet markets. Following on from the model developed by Silk Road, contemporary markets are characterized by their use of darknet anonymized...
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The Silk Road is a three-episode BBC TV documentary about the Silk Road, made in 2016. It was presented by historian Sam Willis and comprised three episodes...
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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of The World is a 2018 non-fiction book by English historian Peter Frankopan. The full text is divided into...
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Joanna Lumley (redirect from Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure)
Joanna Lumley's India for ITV. In 2018 she presented Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure, a four-part travelogue covering eight countries which were...
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The Silk Road (Japanese: 敦煌, Hepburn: Tonkō), also known as Dun-Huang, is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Satō. The movie was adapted from the...
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The New Silk Road Initiative was a United States initiative in the 2010s that aimed to integrate Afghanistan with Central Asia, boosting trade and economic...
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Trade route (section Silk Road)
would later become known as the Maritime Silk Road, although that is a misnomer, since spices, rather than silk, were traded along this route. Many Austronesian...
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starting with the popularity of Silk Road and Diabolus Market and its subsequent seizure by legal authorities. Silk Road was one of the first dark web marketplaces...
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