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by Rachel Choo\r\n\r\nThe ancient Silk Road \u2013 actually a network of established roads, unkempt pathways and evanescent desert trails \u2013 conducted goods, ideas, adventurers, spies, diplomats and armies from China, across the Eurasian continent to India, the Mideast and Europe, and back. The road has become a fabled metaphor for cosmopolitan wayfaring and exchange, despite the fact that it was also a Read more....<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"