{"id":147,"date":"2021-10-10T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/?p=147"},"modified":"2021-10-10T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:24:03","slug":"great-silk-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/great-silk-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Silk Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 29px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/news\/the-great-silk-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uzbekintour.com\/images\/Flag-Russian.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"29\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px; color: green; font-weight: bold;\">RUS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Introduction<\/h1>\n<p><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Great_Silk_Road_Map_All.gif\" alt=\"Great Silk Road Map\" \/><span class=\"date\">The Great Silk Road<\/span> \u2014 an original phenomenon of the history of developing of humanity, its aspiration for union and exchanging cultural wealth, conquest of the living spaces and markets for goods.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Great_Silk_Road_Now.gif\" alt=\"Great Silk Road Now\" \/><br \/>\nAncient cities of Uzbekistan were located on the ancient Silk Road, the trading route between China and the West.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe route took its name from silk, the commodity most in demand in Europe from China during the Roman period.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Great_Silk_Road_Map_Uzbekistan_Part.gif\" alt=\"Great_Silk Road Map Uzbekistan Part\" \/> Alexander the Great set up at least 8 cities in Central Asia between <span class=\"date\">334 &#8211; 323 BC<\/span> before the caravans began traveling through the Silk Road after around <span class=\"date\">138 BC<\/span> China opened its border to trade.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Great_Silk_Road_Trade-Caravans-on-the-Great-Highway-of-Central-Asia-Posters.gif\" alt=\"Great Silk Road Trade Caravans on the Great Highway of Central Asia Posters\" \/><br \/>\nBetween <span class=\"date\">484 &#8211; 1150<\/span> Huns, Turks and Arabs came from the west and the latest brought with them a new religion of Islam.<br \/>\nMany mosques and Madrassahs were built in Uzbekistan cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva during this period, including remaining structures of the Samanids.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Great_Silk_Road_Pamir.gif\" alt=\"Pamir\" \/><br \/>\nMost of the cities were destroyed during the invasion of the Genghis Khan in <span class=\"date\">1220<\/span>. Later Timur, known also as Tamerlane, resurrected once famous cities by using the labor of slaves and artists captured during successful crusades.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Great_Silk_Road_Great_Wall.gif\" alt=\"Great Wall\" \/><br \/>\nTimur conquered Persia, captured Baghdad, and lead expeditions to Anatolia and India. Most of the architecture that is found in Samarkand was build by Timur and his grandson Ulugbek. Great Silk Road today is one of the most attractive tourist routes.<br \/>\n<img class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/images\/150px_Great_Silk_Road_Afrosiab_Ruins_Samarkand.gif\" alt=\"Afrosiab Ruins Samarkand\" \/><br \/>\nIt is much due to the revival of Great Silk Road that the mankind have got the access to the global heritage of different nations who for thousands of years lived along this great transcontinental arterial road and who formed and matured their varied cultural wealth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">To Top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Introduction The Great Silk Road \u2014 an original phenomenon of the history of developing of humanity, its aspiration for union and exchanging cultural wealth, conquest of the living spaces and markets for goods. Ancient cities of Uzbekistan were located on the ancient Silk Road, the trading route between China and the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[29,1,22],"tags":[30,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uzbekintour.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}