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Han establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions

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The Han formalise authority over the Tarim oases, garrisoning the corridors and paying for that presence largely in bolts of silk. State expenditure, not private luxury demand, puts the first large volumes of silk into the western trade.

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  1. Story
  2. The Han formalise authority over the Tarim oases, garrisoning the corridors and paying for that presence largely in bolts of silk. State expenditure, not private luxury demand, puts the first large volumes of silk into the western trade.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Taklamakan Desert
  5. Han Empire
  6. Silk
  7. Han establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions
  8. Connections
  9. Han Empire
  10. Taklamakan Desert
  11. Silk
  12. Taklamakan Desert
  13. Silk
  14. Zhang Qian
  15. Zhang Qian is sent west by Emperor Wu
  16. Han campaigns against Dayuan for the Ferghana horses
  17. Han establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions
  18. Northern Tarim route
  19. Southern Tarim route
  20. Han Empire
  21. Han establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions
  22. Han Empire
  23. Sogdian merchant networks
  24. Han establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions
  25. Silkworm cultivation reaches Byzantium
  26. Evidence
  27. Argues from excavated documents at seven Tarim and Central Asian sites that most recorded traffic was local and small-scale rather than long-distance luxury trade, and that Chinese government military expenditure was the dominant economic driver in the Tarim oases. A necessary corrective to the popular image of continuous caravans crossing the whole length.
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