Posted: December 18th, 2014

What were the characteristic components of international trade along the Silk Road in the Pre-Mongol era; the traders, their means of transport, their goods, their geographical range, the currency they used and so on? To what extent was this trade dominated by the major empires situated at either end of the Silk Road?

What were the characteristic components of international trade along the Silk Road in the Pre-Mongol era; the traders, their means of transport, their goods, their geographical range, the currency they used and so on? To what extent was this trade dominated by the major empires situated at either end of the Silk Road?

This question asks you to look into the components that were important for trade along the Silk Road: the traders, their means of transport, their goods, their geographical range, the currency they used and so on. You are also asked to give some thought to how this trade was promoted or perhaps impeded by the empires whose inhabitants produced and bought the goods traded along the Silk Road.

I will upload several reading materials in file, and also below there are two websites for other readings. Thus, please according to these readings and then write essay. Reading materials are important, and then do the correct references (at least 5-6/ Harvard Style). Thanks!
Reading:
Helen Wang, “How much for a camel? A New Understanding of Money on the Silk Road before AD 800”, in S. Whitfield (ed.), The Silk Road. Trade, Travel, War and Faith. Hong Kong: Serindia Publications 2004: 24-33.   —– uploaded in file you can check

Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press 1999: 27-54.  —– uploaded in file you can check

Rika Gyselen, “Economy in the Sasanian Iran”, Economy of Ancient Iran,http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Law/economy_sasanian.htm

Pegolotti’s Merchant Handbook,https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/pegol.html.

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