Description
The Silk Road consisted of perilous caravan routes roaming from China to Turkey and Europe. The caravans of Asian merchants carried silk, jade, porcelain, tea, spices, and gunpowder. Meanwhile, horses, gold, silver, jewels, and glassware, traveled from Europe to Asia. Genghis Khan and offspring organized Mongol tribal horsemen to conquer that land. For a price, they provided amazing trade-route security, enabling Marco Polo to travel east.
Maya Sutton graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received her PhD from UNM. She taught English at the university in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, soon after the Soviet Army withdrew after years of occupation. Sutton has spent time at the eastern end of the Silk Road in China and at the western end in Turkey and Italy.