Listen "India's Rich Trade History and the Silk Road with William Dalrymple"
Episode Synopsis
There is so much of India’s rich heritage and past that is yet to be discovered. But we have great historians like William Dalrymple who spend years researching on India’s history to bring us the most interesting and captivating stories about the country.
In today’s episode, William Dalrymple discusses the stories and contents from his book "The Golden Road" which explores India's 1,500-year history as a hub of cultural and intellectual exchange.
Resource List -
William Dalrymple Website - https://williamdalrymple.com/
Empire Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58hSTReUQiK4axYUVx?si=388684fdbe8f49a5
The Rest is History Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/7Cvsbcjhtur7nplC148TWy?si=09f97df360c1418e
What are frescoes? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco
More about the Silk Road - https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/silk-road/
Who was Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Richthofen#:~:text=Ferdinand%20Freiherr%20von%20Richthofen%20
The travels of Marco Polo - https://silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo
Read about the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea - https://www.worldhistory.org/Periplus_of_the_Erythraean_Sea/
What is the Muziris Papyrus? - https://historicalleys.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-muziris-papyrus.html
Read about the Suvarnabhumi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suvarnabhumi
What is the Mes Aynak - https://archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/afghanistan/en/a-propos/ainak
Who was Xuanzang? - https://asiasociety.org/xuanzang-monk-who-brought-buddhism-east
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/travels-of-xuanzang-629-645-ce-xuanzang-memorial-nava-nalanda-mahavihara/9gVR3GyICUOmKg?hl=en
China’s only female empress, Wu Zetian - https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-first-and-only-woman-emperor-of-china/PQWR-NRltC6QFA?hl=en
More about Angkor Wat - https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668/
What was the Islamic Golden Age? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
Al-Khwarizmi’s book on Algebra - https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666184/
What is the Fibonacci sequence? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence
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