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The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
4.17 (46659 Reviews)
History
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Economics
Panoramica
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Frankopan's "The Silk Roads" rewrites history through Central Asia's lens, challenging Eurocentric narratives. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers rated it 8/10, praising its accessibility. What if everything you know about world history is centered on the wrong continent?

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The Forgotten Center of History

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For most of human history, the world's center of gravity wasn't London, Paris, or Rome. It was the vast stretch of territory spanning from the Mediterranean to China. Peter Frankopan's groundbreaking work "The Silk Roads" challenges our Western-centric view of history by revealing how these ancient routes served as the planet's primary arteries of ideas, religions, technologies, diseases, and cultural exchange. These weren't just trade routes carrying exotic goods-they were civilization's central nervous system. The book has become a global sensation, translated into over 30 languages and celebrated by figures from Hillary Clinton to Chinese President Xi Jinping. What makes this perspective revolutionary is how it completely reorients our understanding of history, showing that for millennia, the true engines of human progress operated along these interconnected pathways that have been largely written out of our conventional historical narratives.

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Cradles of Innovation: Persia and the East

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Networks of Exchange Transform the World

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Spiritual Highways: Faith Travels the Roads

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Islam's Golden Age Transforms the World

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From Mongol Storm to European Rise

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The New Silk Roads Emerge

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