Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road ... 1,500 years from the Han Dynasty, when the government began to station garrisons there, until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ...

The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium ... so retaliated by embargoing trade with Europe. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, China was once again shut off from the outside world ...

Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han ... and in the process pioneered the route known as the "Silk Road" from Chang'an (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province ...

For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A.D. 629 ... finally shutting itself off from the world during the Ming dynasty in the 14th century. "Unlike Indian Buddhists, the Chinese ...

Civilization 7 is slowly revealing more Civs in the lead-up to its February release, and the Ming Civ seems like a good pick ...

But this small shard of porcelain, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1520–1570), rewrote ... the extensive network of ancient trade routes, such as the Silk Road, makes it plausible that traders ...

Archaeologists have officially confirmed a recent discovery to be southern China's oldest city that's more than 3,000 years ...

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...