[bnewman85]

i never understood the concept of the Silk Road, isn't it just meant to roughly refer to the conceptual east-west trade links through time. There isn't an "everyday life on the Silk Road" since that concept spans millenia and constantly changing landscape of nations and peoples

[Noumenon72]

The article talks about how the Silk Road was created as a concept out of nothing by a historian. Interesting how a century and a half later most of us accept that man's framing without ever questioning it.