00:00This is an animal that carries goods.
00:09The three-colored sugar is also very interesting because it has a lot of interesting details.
00:16The camel is a very important transportation tool on the Silk Road.
00:27This exhibition is presenting a rather different vision of the Silk Road that some people might be expecting.
00:52So we are presenting it rather than a single trade route between East and West.
00:56We are showing the Silk Road as a series of overlapping networks that link communities across Asia, Africa and Europe.
01:06We're showing that those routes run in all directions, so North, South, not just East and West, all compass points.
01:11And we're showing that it was not just silk and spices and the things that we think about when we think about the Silk Road,
01:16but also people, objects and ideas moving sometimes great distances, not just by land but also by sea and river.
01:23And exchanges taking place in all contexts, including trade, but not limited to trade.
01:46The Silk Road has a very long history, but we've chosen a really interesting 500-year chapter in that long history between around 500 and 1000.
02:10And during this time there's a lot of activity along the Silk Road's networks.
02:14For example, we see various polities and empires rising and undertaking activities on a transcontinental scale.
02:21So, for example, Tang China in the East, but also the Carolingian Empire in the West.
02:25We see major religions, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam on the move, also across our map, reaching sometimes the extremities of the area that we're covering.
02:36And religion is one of the ways in which communities are connected to each other across sometimes really vast distances.
02:43We see migrations of peoples also across our map and we see commerce on a scale that surpasses what we've seen in previous periods.
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