General Start Journey Into Western China
Author: Mary H. Worthy
It was in the second century BCE when Zhang Ian, a Chinese general, began a journey to the west in search of support in their struggle against the Xingu, which neither Great Wall of China had managed to stop. Despite not getting the allies it needed, it gathered great information about regions that were virtually unknown then. However, a few years earlier, around 327 BC, Alexander the Great claimed to have gone into the area, conquering Persia on their way and the territories of present-day Uzbekistan and northern Afghanistan.
Centuries later Genghis Khan used these roads to extend their power and then Marco Polo claimed to have reached the Mongol court of his grandson, Kublai Khan the king, who had taken control of southern China and moved to Janbaliq (Beijing).
But the development of Chinese maritime trade in the fifteenth century, at the hands of Admiral Zhen, who sailed along the coasts of India and the Arabian Peninsula to reach Africa and the discovery by the Basque range of sea between Europe and India, the exiled into oblivion? Silk Road? very poor and because of insecurity.
Though their schedules were used regularly for centuries, it was not until 1877 that were renamed? Silk Road? By the German geographer Ferdinand von Richtholfen, a clear reference to the main product that she was carrying.
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