The Silk Roads
The Silk Roads: A New History of The World is a 2015 book written 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.
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Author
Peter Frankopan is a historian and dominant researcher at Worcester College. Also he directs the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He studies about the history of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia and interdependence of Islam and Christianity. He has expert knowledge in Greek literature of Middle Ages .[1]
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.[2]
Reception
Reviews on the silk roads by Peter Frankopan was published at the Guardian,[2] The Independent,[3] The telegraph newspaper,[4] The Times.[5] and The New York Review of Books.[6]
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