ATDTDA 759

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ATDTDA 759

the Silk Road

The Silk road is the name for the trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and China. The first users of the road must have lived in the first half of the first millennium BCE, but the name 'Silk road' dates from the first century BCE. Its most famous traveler lived more than twelve hundred years later: Marco 

Polo of Venice (1254-1324).
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The southern branch went through the Arian capital Artacoana (Herât) to Kapisa (Kandahâr) in Arachosia, and from there either to the southeast to the Lower Indus or to the northwest to Gandara (the valley of the Kabul) and the Punjab
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The northern branch went from Susia through the Karakum desert, passing along the oasis Margiana (Mary or Merv) and the Scythian tribes along the Amudar'ya, to Maracanda (Samarkand) in Sogdia or to Bactra (Balkh, near modern Mazâr-e Sharîf) and Drapsaca (Kondûz). Here, lapislazuli could be found, a precious article that was much appreciated in Babylonia and Assyria. Other articles that were traded were the famous 'blood sweating' horses of the Ferghana valley, and hairy camels from the Gobi desert. 
http://www.livius.org/sh-si/silk_road/silk_road.html

“Go into the past and never come out” Any sci-fi novels in which the protagonist doesn’t return from the past?

“who can draw boundaries between the rememembrancer and the remembered?” Proust!

Punjabi traders

The Punjabi people (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی, also Panjabi people) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from South Asia. Their region, is the Punjab region, which has been host to some of the oldest civilizations in the world including one of the world's first and oldest civilizations, The Indus Valley Civilization. The Punjabi identity is primarily cultural, ethnic and linguistic, with Punjabis being those whose first language is Punjabi, an Indo-Aryan tongue. In recent times, however, the definition has been 
broadened to include also emigrants of Punjabi descent who maintain Punjabi cultural traditions, even when they no longer speak the language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_people

“the highly esteemed donkeys of the Waziri”

The most notable product of the country is the Waziri breed of horses and donkeys . 
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/WAT_WIL/WAZIRISTAN.html

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