c. 1 CE – 300 CE · Gandhara under Kushan rulers · early centuries CE
Artistic exchange within the route network’s long period.
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Silk Roads: routes connecting regions
c. 200 BCE – 1,600 CE
Routes across Central Asia carried goods, people and religious ideas. This was a changing network of journeys and settlements, rather than one road joining two fixed endpoints.
Chang’an–Tianshan corridor · selected long span
A broad corridor history from the second century BCE to the sixteenth century CE; routes changed throughout.
UNESCO · Silk Roads corridorWhy it matters
Connections help explain why cultures share ideas without becoming identical.
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Think network, not a single road.
Place it in context · 2 connected stories
Compare the whole dated phase. Overlap shows shared time; it does not establish contact or cause.
Overlapping in time
868 CE · Surviving dated woodblock-printed book
A surviving printed text from the wider connected Buddhist world.
Routes across Central Asia carried goods, people and religious ideas. This was a changing network of journeys and settlements, rather than one road joining two fixed endpoints.
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