The Silk Roads were a network of trade routes that connected towns, settlements, and peoples, across ancient...
Asia
Explore the histories of Asia across a continent shaped by distinct civilizations and long-distance exchange. These studies follow local experiences while tracing the connections that transformed societies from antiquity to the present.
Cultural ideas, art traditions, and aesthetic tastes informed objects made and traded on the ancient Silk Road....
Considering topographical regions that create natural boundaries and areas of cultural affiliation. Purposes and Insights Understanding geography...
How British colonialism impacted this special form of knowledge transmission. Palm-leaf manuscripts are one of humanity’s most...
A fresh power struggle began in Central Asia and a new era of adjustment and cultural assimilation...
Though the Scythians had no temples, there is ample evidence of priestly function of their kurgans and...
Multiple back-and-forth movements are not surprising, and multidirectional migrations make pinpointing origins difficult. Introduction With 7600 perimeter...
U.S. global power has rested on geopolitical dominance over Eurasia. Introduction Throughout 2021, Americans were absorbed in arguments...
Scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated. Introduction The very first human beings originally...
Chosen over his brothers to succeed Genghis Khan, Ogedei built Karakorum, strengthened Mongol rule, defeated the Jin,...
It might appear to many that atheism is a modern idea. However, in parts of Asia, particularly...
Examining interactions and the exchanges in the Eurasian networks during the first centuries of the Roman Empire. By...
A brief critical survey of the development, implications, and limitations of the Age of Commerce paradigm in...
Kathmandu’s Darbar Square was one of the worst affected by the earthquake. Jool-yan/shutterstock.com Hundreds of monuments of the Kathmandu Valley’s World Heritage sites were...
“Young China”, featured in Camps and Trails in China (1918) / HathiTrust Digital Library Although often overshadowed by the...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.24.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Early Indus Valley Civilizations 1.1...
Terracotta Army detail, Xi’an, China / Photo by Peter Morgan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Rolando Minuti /...
Terracotta fragments, Lapita people, c. 1000 B.C.E., red-slip earthenware, Santa Cruz Islands, south-east of Solomon Islands (Department...