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Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse

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In the first volume of China, published in Berlin, the geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen names the Han-period routes between China and the West Seidenstrasse. The network had operated for roughly sixteen centuries without a name, and had been effectively dormant as a principal corridor for four hundred years before it acquired one.

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  1. Story
  2. In the first volume of China, published in Berlin, the geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen names the Han-period routes between China and the West Seidenstrasse. The network had operated for roughly sixteen centuries without a name, and had been effectively dormant as a principal corridor for four hundred years before it acquired one.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Ferdinand von Richthofen
  5. The term 'Silk Road'
  6. Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse
  7. Connections
  8. Ferdinand von Richthofen
  9. The term 'Silk Road'
  10. The term 'Silk Road'
  11. Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse
  12. Ferdinand von Richthofen
  13. Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse
  14. Chang'an-Tianshan corridor inscribed by UNESCO
  15. Evidence
  16. Ferdinand von Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse for the Han-period routes between China and the West. This is the origin of the name; no ancient or medieval source, in any language, calls the network a silk road.
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