Peter Frankopan ✓
@peterfrankopan · Oxford · joined 03 Dec 2008
Professor of Global History at Oxford. Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Silk Roads. Environment & Climate Change. Co-host of the Legacy podcast
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Pitch perfect opening event @britishmuseum for the blockbuster & thrilling #BayeuxTapestry exhibition…. https://t.co/gDpgY1p7dY
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Interesting new piece on Monastic Response to Non-Christian Communities in Late Antique Gaza 👇
https://t.co/DNE8YABoG1
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Excellent, insightful and balanced review by @AyseZarakol of
The Steppe and Its Empires by Michael Khodarkovsky
https://t.co/7oap00WRdn
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Unbearably bad news from Nepal, Tibet and China. Looks like many, many thousands will have lost their lives. My assumption is that this involves multiple dam bursts/failures. Prayers for all affected - and for the rescue teams working in desperate conditions 🙏🙏🙏
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This was a 'very long road', he wrote, leading as far as the land of the Seres, or 'silk people'. The inhabitants of this country were enclosed by ‘great walls’ - a
the chains of defences that were built by Chinese rulers for protection from nomads (and others) #SilkRoads
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Such as Ammianus Marcellinus, who writes about the Silk Road leading east.
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This was one reason why Roman writers start to record, investigate and survey trade and trade routes to the east.
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So we start to see large amounts of Chinese silks reaching the Mediterranean by the 1st C, such as in the tombs at Palmyra
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As Rome rose, interest in the peoples, places and goods across all of Asia rose sharply - alongside growing disposable incomes that are often a hallmark of imperial power.
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It is easy to forget (or not to know) that cities like Basra, Mosul, Tikrit, Samarkand and Bukhara were home tothriving Christian communities many centuries before Christianity reached places like Poland or Scandinavia.
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Some scholars esimtate there were more Christians in Asia than Europe until c1400....
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And then, of course, the rise and spread of Christianity - which accelerated far more quickly in Asia along trade routes than it did in the Mediterranean/Europe.
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Or other embassies where Parthian visitors were taken to the Pacific coast and given lavish presents by the emperor that included money and elite gift of choice...silk.
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We find caravans from the Parthian Empire – a state centred on the Persian heartlands – arriving at the Han court 2,000 years ago, with gifts that included ‘large birds, eggs and conjurors’
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The expansion of Chinese horizons to the west under the Han dynasty did something similar #SilkRoads
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Kanishka controlled trading locations across a vast swathe of territory, including Kashgar, Khotan and Pāṭaliputra
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For example, the inscriptions of Kanishka the Great, found at Rabatak in Afghanistan, describe him asthe dominant figure in Central Asia and as ‘the ruler of all India’ https://t.co/QSA7vIbvO8
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The rise of the Kushan - descendants of Yuezhi nomads who had been displaced by Xiongnu from the Eurasian steppes likewise fuelled a new set of deep commercial, cultural and political connections
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Then, of course, the great Greco-Bactrian kingdoms that connected Central Asia, India and the west
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Ideas about art, religion, philosophy and more had a profound effect on the evolution of other belief systems - most notably Buddhism
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For example, the campaigns & achievements of Alexander the Great, that brought ideas from the Aegean and Mediterranean deep into Asia
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Then of course there are the major pulses that invigorated connections across/throughout Asia further still deep in Antiquity #SilkRoads
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Qin-Qin Lü, Julian Henderson, Yongqiang Wang and Binghua Wang, Natron glass beads reveal proto-Silk Road between the Mediterranean and China in the 1st millennium BCE, Scientific reports 11 2021
https://t.co/tNyN1xBxyi
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It seems that the quality and amount of Mediterranean natron glass products reaching East Asia at least by the fifth century BCE was a contributing factor in the development of native Chinese glass-making
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'Natron and trona...are evaporite deposits consisting of mostly sodium carbonate. It is likely that most of the natron available was provided by Egypt, with the best-known source Wadi El Natrun about 100 km northwest of Cairo'
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By 1000 BC, #SilkRoads networks brought far-flung regions into contact with each other. The Mediterranean's ties with China, for example, can be clearly see in the diffusion of natron glass in the 1st millennium BCE
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Hui-Yuan Yeh et al, Early evidence for travel with infectious diseases along the Silk Road: Intestinal parasites from 2000 year-old personal hygiene sticks in a latrine at Xuanquanzhi Relay Station in China, Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 9 2016
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Incredible evidence how travel and trade spread infectious diseases along the Silk Road from a study of intestinal parasites from 2000 year-old personal hygiene sticks from a relay station Xuanquanzhi
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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione
6 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.
Visualizzazioni mediane7 587questo account924mediana per 10K–100K
Copertura, %7.68%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K
Interazione, %1.03%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K
| Metrica | Questo account | Mediana per 10K–100K | Rapporto |
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| Visualizzazioni mediane per post | 7 587 | 924 | 8.21× |
| Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower) | 7.68% | 3.62% | 2.12× |
| Tasso di interazione | 1.03% | 1.52% | 0.68× |
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes77.8%1 323 in total
Reposts12.5%212 in total
Replies2.7%46 in total
Quotes0.3%5 in total
Bookmarks6.8%115 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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