The Non-Existent Silk Road

A History of Mankind (15)

China maintained a very tenuous, thin and unreliable connection with other Eurasian centers of population and development via the steppes, in which trade was largely irrelevant, reduced to luxury items or seeds such as those of wheat. The Silk Road didn't exist then and didn't exist later, and it fact it has never existed.[1]

What has been commonly descr…