The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Frankopan, 2015)
130 BCE · Resource
Peter Frankopan re-centres world history on Central Asia and the trade routes that connected East and West for two millennia.
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Around 130 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)