We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned;
For lust of knowing what should not be known,
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
--James Flecker
Silkroad.mp depicts the lands around the "Silk Road," the name given
(in the 19th century) to the various trade routes that, beginning
in the 2nd century BC, linked China with the West. The greatest city
of the Silk Road was Samarkand, the site of which is located near the
exact center of the map, in what once was called Transoxania.
Note that the Americans represent the Byzantines (leader: Justinian or
Theodora; capital: Constantinople, aka Byzantium); the Sioux
represent the Ethiopians (leader: Menelik II; capital: Addis Ababa);
the Aztecs represent the Khmer (leader: Jayavarman VII; capital:
Angkor); and the Zulus represent the Mali (leader: Mansa Musa; capital:
Timbuktu).
By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned;
For lust of knowing what should not be known,
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
--James Flecker
Silkroad.mp depicts the lands around the "Silk Road," the name given
(in the 19th century) to the various trade routes that, beginning
in the 2nd century BC, linked China with the West. The greatest city
of the Silk Road was Samarkand, the site of which is located near the
exact center of the map, in what once was called Transoxania.
Note that the Americans represent the Byzantines (leader: Justinian or
Theodora; capital: Constantinople, aka Byzantium); the Sioux
represent the Ethiopians (leader: Menelik II; capital: Addis Ababa);
the Aztecs represent the Khmer (leader: Jayavarman VII; capital:
Angkor); and the Zulus represent the Mali (leader: Mansa Musa; capital:
Timbuktu).