The Silk Road Quotes

“There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters.”
― James A. Millward, The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

“The image of the ancient fasces (bundled birch rods and axes) was already old when Rome adopted it as a symbol of state.”
― James A. Millward, The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

“Kushan coins bore Greek or Kharoshthi script along with images of their kings, Greek, Persian, and Hindu gods, and of the Buddha. Reliable coinage helped Kushan broker commercial exchanges between China, India, Persia, and, ultimately, Rome. Kushan became a great patron of Buddhism and promoted the dissemination of the faith through Central Asia, en route to East Asia.”
― James A. Millward, The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

“Displaced from the Chinese frontier, the Yuezhi and confederated tribes evolved by the first century CE into the Kushan Empire, a state that combined Central Asian nomadic with Persian, Indian, and Hellenic influences, at the hub of the Old World land-and-sea trade routes.”
― James A. Millward, The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction