How an ancient road created the first global marketplace in this world
By writukakati
@writukakati (49)
India
September 9, 2008 2:40am CST
A trade route which originated in the 2nd century BC..... which connected 3 continents...... which extended 8000 kilometers............which bustled with activity for more than 1000 years........which created the first global marketplace for the first time in human history....
Find here a highly interesting story
smetimes.tradeindia.com/smetimes/in-depth/2008/Sep/08/the-silk-road-a-journey-through-the-history-of-globalization.html
1 response
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
9 Sep 08
It's surprising how a single thing in history can affect our time today, isn't it? Just one wrongdoing from the past can affect the whole flow of our present today and the things that are existing now shouldn't have existed if it weren't for those who struggled so much... like the story you suggested us to read. We should be thankful to the people of the Early Civilization because if it weren't for them, economy and society wouldn't have existed today...
@writukakati (49)
• India
10 Sep 08
Thanks for your response.
There was a great library in ancient Alexandria which was loaded with some of the most valuable documents gathered by the scholars of the period. If it was not destroyed by fire............. I am now considering to write a story on this subject)
(plz comment on the earlier story at smetimes.tradeindia.com if u dont mind)
