2016年9月21日 · Constantinople played a crucial role in the sustainment of the Silk Road in the late Antique and Early Middle Ages, by both importing and exporting various coveted goods, …

2019年10月3日 · The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire was Constantinople. The wealth of this magnificent capital was legendary, and luxury goods from China and India made their way …

Even in its long centuries of decline down to its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the wealth of Constantinople was legendary, and its location ensured it a very important role in the …

For hundreds of years, all roads, east to west and north to south, led and came forth from Constantinople. The worlds greatest, and most dangerous, journey had its deepest roots at the …

Constantinople could not be taken from the water side so long as the Empire’s fleet, with its secret weapon of flaming naptha or “Greek fire,” controlled the sea. A huge chain blocked the …

2017年11月3日 · The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.

Every culture that touched silk added to its adornment of humanity. And silk turns up everywhere — aboard medieval Viking ships sailing out of Constantinople and as kerchiefs from India …

Step into Constantinople, home of the Hagia Sophia. Nestled deep in the sandstone canyons of modern-day Jordan lies the majestic ancient city of Petra, once a thriving metropolis along the …

2025年1月29日 · Constantinople played a crucial role in the sustainment of the Silk Road in the late Antique and Early Middle Ages, by both importing and exporting various coveted goods, …

Explore the many adventures the Silk Road has to offer in this lecture series which occured from October 2010 to June 2011. Medieval Constantinople was the greatest emporium of the …