- c. 138 BCEAsia
Silk Road trade routes open under Emperor Wu
Emperor Wu's campaigns against the Xiongnu and missions into Central Asia open the overland Silk Road, linking China to India, Persia, and the Mediterranean in exchange of goods and ideas.
Era: Imperial Unification: Qin and Han
Sources: Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE), Teaching China with the Smithsonian · Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Economy & TradeThe 2nd century BCE
Economy & Trade in the 2nd century BCE
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 2nd century BCE, tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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- Earliest
- 138 BCE
- Latest
- 138 BCE
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.