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"Insects are seldom mentioned in history texts, yet they significantly shaped human history. The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on History tells the stories of just five insects, tied together by a thread originating in the Silk Roads of Asia, and how they have impacted our world. Silkworms have been farmed to produce silk for millennia, creating a history of empires and cultural exchanges; Silk Roads connected East to West, generating trade centers and transferring ideas, philosophies, and religions. The western honey bee feeds countless people, and their crop pollination is worth billions of dollars. Fleas and lice carried bacteria that caused three major plague pandemics, moved along the Silk Roads from Central Asia. Bacteria carried by insects left their ancient clues as DNA embedded in victims' teeth. Lice caused outbreaks of typhus, especially in crowded conditions such as prisons and concentration camps. Typhus aggravated the effects of the Irish potato famine, and Irish refugees took typhus to North America. Yellow fever was transported to the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade, taking and devaluing the lives of millions of Africans. Slaves were brought to the Americas to reduce labor costs in the cultivation of sugarcane, which was itself transported from south Asia along the Silk Roads. Yellow fever caused panic in the United States in the 1700s and 1800s as the virus and its mosquito vector migrated from the Caribbean. Constructing the Panama Canal required defeating mosquitoes that transmitted yellow fever. The silken thread runs through and ties together these five insects and their impacts on history."--

Insects - History --- Silk Road - History --- Silkworms - History --- Insect pests - History --- Insects as carriers of disease - History --- Insects as carriers of plant disease - History

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Les marchands sogdiens n'ont pas seulement contribué à l?importation de la soie chinoise en Occident ; ils ont aussi, à l'instar d'autres peuples centrasiatiques, comme les Ouighours ou les Tokhariens, participé à la reformulation du canon bouddhique avant son adoption par les Chinois. Les descendants de Gengis Khan n'ont pas seulement adopté la langue turque ; ils sont aussi passés au persan et ont établi la culture persane dans l'Inde du nord. Les Grecs nourris d'Aristote n'ont pas seulement rencontré à Aï Khanoum, dans l'actuel Afghanistan, les peuples de la steppe ; ils ont aussi laissé des traces dans les textes zoroastriens de la Perse. Les cinéastes russes réfugiés à Tachkent dans les années 1940 n'ont pas seulement apporté à l'Ouzbékistan des techniques nouvelles ; ils ont enrichi le cinéma soviétique de motifs centrasiatiques? La Route de la soie, cette invention du XIXe siècle, nous invite à aborder l'histoire du monde sans préjugés européocentristes. L'Asie centrale : lieu mythique, creuset exceptionnel d'influences lointaines, où les religions, les moeurs, les arts et les techniques se sont trouvés inextricablement mêlés. Ses territoires recouvrent l?ensemble des anciennes républiques soviétiques centrasiatiques et les territoires avoisinants du Xinjiang, de la Mongolie, de l'Afghanistan, de l'Iran, de l'Azerbaïdjan et de la Turquie. Ils offrent tous une stratification extrêmement complexe de transferts culturels aussi bien synchroniques que diachroniques. Un voyage dans le temps, à la rencontre de peuples et de civilisations qui se sont illustrés par une production artistique d?une richesse inouïe. Et la première synthèse accessible en français sur cette aire culturelle qui a depuis des siècles fasciné voyageurs et savants.

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its development as their itinerant counterparts. In this book, Kate Franklin takes the highlands of medieval Armenia as a compelling case study for examining how early globalization and everyday life intertwined along the Silk Road. She argues that Armenia-and the Silk Road itself-consisted of the overlapping worlds created by a diverse assortment of people: not only long-distance travelers but also the local rulers and subjects who lived in Armenia's mountain valleys and along its highways. Franklin guides the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it. With its innovative focus on the far-reaching implications of local practices, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms brings the study of medieval Eurasia into relation with contemporary investigations of cosmopolitanism and globalization, challenging persistent divisions between modern and medieval, global and quotidian.

Trade routes --- History --- Silk Road --- Armenia --- Description and travel --- History, Local --- Trade routes - Caucasus - History --- Silk Road - Description and travel - History --- Silk Road - History, Local --- Armenia - History - 428-1522 --- History / Europe / Medieval --- History / World --- History / Asia / Central Asia --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History. --- History, Local. --- Silk Route