Silk Road
Things with no place
How does this exist in spatial relation to other knowledge?
This arrangement is schematic. Distance and direction on this diagram carry no physical meaning — it shows how these things relate, not where they are. Nothing here is measured position, live telemetry or a simulation.
Ideas and conditions25
Something with no place at all: a condition, a plan, an idea.
- Buddhism
- Islam
- Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
- The term 'Silk Road'
- Han Empire
- Mongol Empire
- Tang Empire
- Sogdian merchant networks
- Marco Polo
- Ferdinand von Richthofen
- Xuanzang
- Zhang Qian
- Pamir Mountains
- Taklamakan Desert
- Maritime Silk Road
- Northern Tarim route
- Southern Tarim route
- Magnetic compass
- Gunpowder
- Papermaking
- Glass
- Horses
- Jade
- Paper
- Silk