The Great Silk Road
Kyrgyzstan on the Great Silk Road
The Great Silk road as a trading way appeared in III century B.C. and existed up to the XVI century. The ancient trading cities located along the Silk Road saw many devastating wars, destructions, big fires, famine and high mortality.
Some of those cities have sunk into oblivion, having left ruins covered with legends to descendants, others more than once blazed on fire, perished and again revived to amaze the world with riches, blue of domes, openwork terracotta ligature of the mausoleums and mosques.
From century to century east markets with different languages rustled, hundreds of years they carried for sale to Europeans precious silks and stones, spices and dyes, gold and silver, exotic southern birds and animals by dusty caravan roads.
The Great Silk Road, one of the most significant achievements in the history of the World civilization. The ramified networks of caravan roads crossed Europe and Asia from the Mediterranean up to China and served as the most important means of trading connections and dialogue between cultures of the West and the East in times of antiquity and Middle Ages. The most extended site of the Silk Road passed through the territories of Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan. Caravans, shiped with silk from China, spices and semi-precious stones from India, silver products from Iran, the Byzantian cloths, Afrosyab ceramics and many other goods went in deserts Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum, through oases of Merv and Khoresm, boundless steppes Sary Arch, had to overcome passes of Pamir, Tien-Shan, Altai, cross the rivers Murghabs, Amu Darya and Syr-Darya.
On a way of caravans rich cities, trading - craft settlements and caravanserais began to arise and blossom. Turkmenistan - Merv; Uzbekistan - Bukhara, Samarkand, Urgench, Khiva. Kazakhstan - Otrar, Turkestan, Taraz, Ispejab. Kyrgyzstan - Jul, Suyab, Nookent, Balasagun, Barskoon, Tash-Rabat, Osh, Uzgen. The European countries cooperated and communicated with the countries of Asia.
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