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It is related that around the middle of the ninetheenth century a learned Chinese was asked if he did not think it would be educational to travel in the lands outside of China. His replay was that one who knows the Chinese classics has nothing left to learn.

The term “silk road” thus refers to more than just trade in silk between China and Rome over a few centuries. It stands for the exchanges of things and ideas, both intended and accidental, through trade, diplomacy, conquest, migration, and pilgrimage that intensified integration of the Afro-Eurasian continent from the Neolithic through modern times. Warriors, missionaries, nomads, emissaries, and artisans as well as merchants contributed to this ongoing cross-fertilization, which thrived under imperial and religious unifications.