Roman Trade Routes to the Far East
Author: Ruth Evelyn Robertson
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13:
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Rome and the Distant East
Author: Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1847252354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies the complex system of trade exchanges and commerce that profoundly changed Roman society.
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
Author: Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1473889812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating history of the intricate web of trade routes connecting ancient Rome to Eastern civilizations, including its powerful rival, the Han Empire. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian Empire of ancient Persia, and the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan), laying claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria. Raoul McLaughlin also delves deeply into Rome’s trade ventures through the Tarim territories, which led its merchants to the Han Empire of ancient China. Having established a system of Central Asian trade routes known as the Silk Road, the Han carried eastern products as far as Persia and the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Though they were matched in scale, the Han surpassed its European rival in military technology. The first book to address these subjects in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes explores Rome’s impact on the ancient world economy and reveals what the Chinese and Romans knew about their rival Empires.
Trade-routes and Commerce of the Roman Empire
Author: Martin Percival Charlesworth
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE
Author: Matthew A. Cobb
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9004376577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew Adam Cobb examines the development of commercial exchange between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean worlds from the Roman annexation of Egypt (30 BCE) up to the early third century CE. Among the issues considered are the identities of those involved, how they organised and financed themselves, the challenges they faced (scheduling, logistics, security, sailing conditions), and the types of goods they traded. Drawing upon an expanding corpus of new evidence, Cobb aims to reassess a number of long-standing scholarly assumptions about the nature of Roman participation in this trade. These range from its chronological development to its economic and social impact.
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction
Author: James A. Millward
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-04-26
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0199782865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction is a new look at an ancient subject: the silk road that linked China, India, Persia and the Mediterranean across the expanses of Central Asia. James A. Millward highlights unusual but important biological, technological and cultural exchanges over the silk roads that stimulated development across Eurasia and underpin civilization in our modern, globalized world.
The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean
Author: Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1473840953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of ancient Roman shipping and trade across continents reveals the Roman Empire’s far-reaching impact in the ancient world. In ancient times, large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Along these routes, the Roman Empire traded bullion for valuable goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense, and eastern spices. This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of southern Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. The first book to bring these subjects together in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean reveals Rome’s impact on the ancient world and explains how international trade funded the legions that maintained imperial rule.
Rome and the Distant East
Author: Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-05-06
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1441162232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn ancient times there were several major trade routes that connected the Roman Empire to exotic lands in the distant East. Ancient sources reveal that after the Augustan conquest of Egypt, valued commodities from India, Arabia and China became increasingly available to Roman society. These sources describe how Roman traders went far beyond the frontiers of their Empire, travelling on overland journeys and maritime voyages to acquire the silk, spices and aromatics of the remote East. Records from ancient China, early India and a range of significant archaeological discoveries provide further evidence for these commercial contacts. Truly global in its scope, this study is the first comprehensive enquiry into the extent of this trade and its wider significance to the Roman world. It investigates the origins and development of Roman trade voyages across the Indian Ocean, considers the role of distant diplomacy and studies the organization of the overland trade networks that crossed the inner deserts of Arabia through the Incense Routes between the Yemeni Coast and ancient Palestine. It also considers the Silk Road that extended from Roman Syria across Iraq, through the Persian Empire into inner Asia and, ultimately, China.
Empires of Ancient Eurasia
Author: Craig Benjamin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1107114969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.
Roman Arabia
Author: Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780674777569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices. It traces the transformation of the region from an Arab kingdom under Roman influence into an imperial province, one that played an increasingly important role in the Roman strategy for control of the Near East. While the primary emphasis is on the relations of the Arabs of the region with the Romans, their interactions with neighboring states, Jewish, Egyptian, and Syrian, are also stressed. The narrative concludes with the breakup of the Roman province at the start of the Byzantine age.
