Pt.1: Introduction: from the rise of the Silk Roads to a Eurasian market system
China's trade on the Western frontier, second-first centuries BCE
Rome's trade to the East, first century BCE-second century CE
The Kushan Empire and the influence of Buddhism, second century BCE-second century CE
The oasis towns of Central Asia and the spread of Buddhism, third-seventh centuries
The Byzantine Empire and silks in royal purple, sixth-ninth centuries
The Tang Empire and foreign traders and priests, eighth-tenth centuries
Muslim Baghdad in the Eurasian market, ninth-eleventh centuries
Trade networks from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea, tenth-thirteenth centuries.
