The Silk Road Old New

AY2025/2026 Semester 1

This course introduces you to the history of the Silk Roads in the longue duree. Through this course, you will become familiar with and understand the major trends, debates, concepts and theories in the history of the Silk Roads, both the overland and the maritime, especially with respect to the role of Southeast Asia and Central Asia in the history of Eurasian exchange in different epochs of global history. You will also be able to apply these concepts, as you analyze and evaluate the different features of Silk Roads from the pre-modern to the modern period. This course will also allow you to develop and produce new original work in the history of the Silk Roads.