The Silk Roads

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Silk Roads: A New History of The World is a 2015 book authored by Peter Frankopan, an academic at the University of Oxford. He presents a new point of view about center of human rise and oppose with traditional view that consider human heirs to the Egyptians.

Summary

The traditional view is that Western civilization descends from the Romans, who were in turn heir to the Greeks, who, in some accounts, were heirs to the Egyptians. Frankopan argues that the Persian empire was the center point of the rise of humanity. In the silk roads, Frankopan wants to change the view point of reader to History and make new sight.^[1]

Author

Frankopan is a historian at Oxford University, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He works on the history of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia and on relations between Christianity and Islam. He also specializes in medieval Greek literature, and translated The Alexiadfor Penguin Classics (2009). Frankopan often writes for the international press, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, MoneyWeek. He has also contributed to TV and Radio documentaries about the Byzantine Empire, Divine Women, Roman Law and the Code of Justinian, the Crusades, Varangian mercenaries and the reign of Ivan the Terrible. His new book is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World .^[2][3]

Reception

Reviews on the silk roads by Peter Frankopan was published at the guardian,^[1] The Independent,^[4] The telegraph newspaper ^[5] and The Times.^[6]

See also

• Silk Road

References