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ofcivilizations
2016
ince ancient times, people have been exploring
unknown lands and foreign countries with customs
and traditions different from their own. This
eagerness for something new made people travel,
discover new territories, create routes and build
roads connecting distant parts of the globe. Merchants’ caravans
carrying commodities, ambassadors, explorers and travelers walked
along these routes.
Trade, being one of the most significant factors of the
historical process, encouraged the interaction of different
cultures. At the same time, the representatives of different regions
exchanged information from different fields of knowledge:
inventions, technologies and crops were borrowed and assimilated.
Although separated by long distances, civilizations established
a dialogue, enriching each other and giving impulse to further
development.
The earliest information about trade relations between
different countries dates back to the 2nd
 millennium bc. At that
period there were already trade routes which spanned the Ancient
East including Bactria, Media, Persia, Armenia, India, Arabia and
Western Asia. In antiquity trade was a risky business, but, on the
other hand, it guaranteed a considerable profit in case of success.
International trade flourished in peacetime and diminished in
wartime, but never ceased.
In the Middle Ages a stable and developed system of
international trade routes functioned, connecting almost all the
civilizations of the Old World: the Silk Road, the Saharan Trade
Routes, the Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks, etc.
New merchants’ commercial confederations like the Hanseatic
League and such city-states as medieval Venice and Genoa came
into existence, specializing in international trade.
Beginning with the Age of Discovery (since 1475), an
opportunity to deliver Indian goods to European ports only by sea
has become available. The Manila Galleons, which sailed over the
Pacific Ocean from Manila (the Philippines) to Acapulco (Mexico)
embodied Christopher Columbus’s dream about trading with
the East.
Most of those ancient routes are nowadays not more than
objects of historical research, however, some of them — for example,
the Saharan Trade Routes or the Great Trunk Road — are still in
use, keeping up with the modern pace of life.
Trade routes continue their everlasting journey through
space and time, connecting countries and being the media of the
dialogue of civilizations.
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his trade route, which connected Scandinavia,
Kievan Rus, and the Byzantine Empire,
allowed traders from both Kievan Rus and
Byzantine to establish prosperous, direct
trade amongst each other. The route was
in the form of a long-distance waterway, which traveled
through the Baltic Sea as well as several rivers flowing into
it, and rivers of the Dnieper river system with portages
located on the drainage divides.
Although first mentioned in the Primary Chronicle,
this route’s impact was reported much earlier — in the
early 9th century, when the Byzantines noticed some
newcomers in their regions, these being Varangians.
Today, the word “Varangians” means “Vikings,” however,
for the Byzantines, this was a term used to describe all
Scandinavians, including several tribes living on the
territory of modern-day Russia.
The Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks
was used primarily to transport various merchandise. Wine
and spices, jewelry and glass, expensive fabrics, icons and
books would be brought up from the Byzantine Empire.
Kiev would trade in silver coins, bread, and handmade
goods, among others. Spinning wheels came from Volyn,
handicrafts and weaponry — from Scandinavia. Northern
Rus, in turn, offered fur, timber, wax and honey, while the
Baltic tribes would trade mostly in amber.
Routes that were more advantageous were opened
with the Crusades in the second half of the 11th
century.
By that time, Rus had already strengthened its commercial
ties with Western Europe, causing the Route from the
Varangians to the Greeks to gradually lose its significance.
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Nikolai Rerikh. Overseas guests. 1901
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he Amber Road is an ancient trade route,
which was used to transfer amber from
coastal areas of the North and Baltic Seas
to the Mediterranean Sea. Amber trade had
defined prehistoric trade routes between
Northern and Southern Europe. This significant raw
material, termed “the gold of the north,” was transported
from the North and Baltic Sea coasts to Italy, Greece, the
Black Sea, Syria and Egypt by way of the Vistula and
Dnieper rivers for thousands of years, beginning in the
16th
 century bc.
Large amber beads were found in the breast
ornament of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen
(ca. 1333–1324 bc), and it is known that amber was sent
as an offering to the temple of Apollo at Delphi from the
North Sea. From the Black Sea, trade continued to Asia
along another ancient trade route called the Silk Road.
Kaup and Truso, two Old Prussian towns on the
Baltic, served as the starting points of the route to the
south. Traders traveled south to Carnantum, the Roman
Legionary camp in the Alps, and from there, after about
2000 kilometers of paths and unpaved trails leading south
from the Baltic Sea, the Amber Road joined the large
network of Roman roads which connected all parts of the
Empire.
The Via Gemina was the last section of the road,
which connected Emona and Aquileia: the Roman capital
of the Venetians and the most important Adriatic port of
the Roman Empire. Segments of the Roman Amber road
can be found today in the Austrian province of Burgenland,
as well as in Hungary and Slovenia — and, of course, in
Aquileia (Italy).
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Ivan Shishkin. After the tempest. Meri-Khovi. 1891
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n ancient network of trade routes was vital
for cultural interactions through various
regions of the Asian continent. This was
the purpose served by the Silk Road, or the
Silk Route, which connected the West and
the East and enabled merchants, soldiers, pilgrims, monks,
urban dwellers and nomads to travel from China and India
to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Silk Road is over 6437 kilometers in length, and
derives its name from the historic trade of Chinese silk,
which began to be carried out on this road during the Han
dynasty (206 bc — 220 ad). Around 114 bc, the Han dynasty
expanded the Central Asian segments of the trade routes
with the aid of the missions and expeditions of Zhang
Qian, a Chinese imperial envoy. Taking great interest in the
safe transportation of their trade products, the Chinese
extended the Great Wall of China in order to ensure the
protection of the trade route.
Trade along the Silk Road opened long-distance
political and economic relations between the civilizations
of China, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, Europe, the
Horn of Africa and Arabia, and was generally an important
factor in their development. Silk was definitely the major
trade item from China; however, many other goods were
traded along the route. In fact, the Silk Road served as
a means of cultural interaction among civilizations — with
people, religions, syncretic philosophies and technologies
travelling along its network.
The United Nations World Tourism Organization,
since 1993, has been working towards fostering peace and
understanding through the development of sustainable
international tourism along the Silk Route.
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he Radhanites were medieval Jewish
merchants who played a major role in trade
between the Christian and Islamic worlds in
the early Middle Ages (ca. 500–1000). Their
trade network was quite vast, covering much
of North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe,
and parts of India and China — including many already
established trade routes from the Roman Empire, which
continued to function at this time largely through their
efforts.
Throughout the Early Middle Ages, it was common
practice in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and
North Africa and the Christian kingdoms of Europe to
forbid one another’s merchants from entering their ports.
Corsairs from both sides raided the shipping of their
enemy, and the Radhanites acted as neutral intermediaries
to aid both sides in open communication and trade
between the territories of the old Roman Empire and
the Far East. There were four main trade routes utilized
by the Radhanites — all beginning in the Rhone Valley
in southern France and stretching all the way to the
east coast of China. The Radhanites mainly transported
commodities which combined small bulk and high demand,
including perfumes, jewelry, spices and silk.
When the Tang Dynasty of China fell in 908, and the
Khazar Khaganate was destructed some sixty years later
(ca. 968–969 ad), the lands of Inner Eurasia, the Caucasus
and China were left in widespread chaos. This caused trade
routes to become unsafe and unstable, a situation which
was intensified by Turkish invasions of the Middle East
and Persia. The Silk Road collapsed for centuries, and the
Radhanites, in turn, largely disappeared by the beginning
of the 11th
century.
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Claude Joseph Vernet. Morning view of the inner port of Marseille
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ne of Asia’s longest and oldest major roads,
the Grand Trunk Road has bridged the gap
between the eastern and western regions of
the Indian subcontinent (South and Central
Asia) for over two millennia. It connects
Chittagong, Bangladesh west to Howrah, West Bengal
in India, traveling across Northern India into Lahore in
Pakistan, as well as further north to Kabul in Afghanistan.
Formerly it was called Uttara Patha (“Road to the North”)
and Shah Rah-e-Azam (“Great Road”).
This route existed originally in the Maurya
Empire, stretching from the mouth of the Ganges to the
northwestern frontier. In the 16th
century, the Afghan
emperor Sher Shah Suri extended and renovated the
ancient Mauryan route, producing the predecessor of the
modern road. The road was rebuilt next in the British
period, between 1833 and 1860, and only then received its
modern name — the Grand Trunk Road.
This road, one of the most important trade routes
in the region, simplified both travel and communication
over the centuries. As far back as the era of Sher Shah Suri,
caravansarais (highway inns) could be found throughout
the road at regular intervals, and trees were planted on
each side of the road for shade. The road was well planned,
with milestones along the entire stretch of the road, which
can still be seen along the present Delhi-Ambala highway.
Today, the Grand Trunk Road still measures over
2500 kilometers in length, and remains a major channel
between India and Pakistan.
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Vasily Vereshchagin. India. Delhi. A cart. 1875
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he Manila Galleons, otherwise known as the
Manila — Acapulco Galleons, were Spanish
trading ships, which sailed a couple times
a year across the Pacific Ocean from Manila,
Philippines, to Acapulco, New Spain (modern-
day Mexico). These ships began to sail this route in 1565,
after the discovery of the ocean passage by Andre´s de
Urdaneta and continued up until 1815, when the Mexican
War of Independence permanently terminated the galleon
trade route.
Spanish colonists on the Philippine Islands relied
on trade as their principal income-generating business,
and over the 250 years of the Manila — Acapulco galleon
trade, a total of 110 galleons set sail.
These galleons carried porcelain, ivory, lacquer-
ware, spices, and processed silk cloth gathered from both
Asia-Pacific and the Spice Island to be sold in European
markets. The trip across the Pacific Ocean from Manila to
Acapulco and then to Spain itself took four months. The
cargoes left for Spain on board the Spanish treasure fleet
from the port of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico, to which
they were transported by land across Mexico. This allowed
them to avoid the dangerous and long journey across the
Indian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope, a route
eventually prohibited by the Dutch after they gained
control of the Cape Colony.
A great number of the Spaniards living in the
Philippines were, in fact, of Mexican descent, which explains
the fact that the Hispanic culture of the Philippines is
more similar to that of Mexico than any other. For almost
three centuries, the Manila Galleons sailed to Spain across
the Pacific, delivering cargoes full of luxury goods, cultural
exchange and economic benefits.
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Cornelis Verbeeck. Marine with three large sailing ships. 17th
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orthern Europe and Northwestern Russia
were connected to the Caspian Sea via the
Volga River by this trade route in the Middle
Ages. Rus and Muslim countries would use
this waterway to trade on the southern
shores of the Caspian Sea.
In the early 800s, Norsemen who came to
Northwestern Russia established the Volga Trade Route.
They built a settlement called Aldeigjuborg (Slavic: Staraya
Ladoga) approximately six miles south of the Volkhov
River Entry into Lake Ladoga. Varangians would travel
from Aldeigjuborg to Novgorod along the Volkhov River,
continuing to Lake Ilmen and further along the River
Lovat to take their boats through a portage which led to
the sources of the Volga.
Through the territory held by Permian and Finnish
tribes, the traders brought furs and honey to the land of
the Volga Bulgars. They would then continue down the
Volga to the capital of the Khazar Khaganate, Atil, from
which the Rus merchants would embark across the sea and,
finally, join the caravan routes which led to Baghdad.
The Volga Route was crucial in various situations —
first in the inner trade of the Golden Horde, and, after
that, between the Tatar Khanates and the Grand Duchy of
Moscow. There were some Russian merchants who travelled
even farther — Afanasy Nikitin, for example, sailed the
Volga from Tver to Astrakhan in 1466, went across the
Caspian Sea, eventually reaching Persia and India.
The decline of silver output in the Abbasid caliphate
caused the Volga Trade Route to lose its significance by the
11th century, leading to increased use of the Trade Route
from the Varangians to the Greeks down the Dnieper River.
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Wassily Kandinsky. Merchants’ arrival. 1905
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ne of the oldest trade routes to connect
India, the secret Spice Islands of Banda and
Maluku and East Africa with the countries
of the Mediterranean is called the Spice
Route. Leaving from the ports of the Red and
Arabian Seas, spices like nutmeg, pepper, ginger, cardamom
and cinnamon were transferred from ships to caravans,
they then passed through Petra and continued all the way
to the Mediterranean coast.
Throughout the reign of King Solomon, the overland
section of the route went into Ezion-Geber, a town near
the Eilat Bay coast. Besides transporting spices from the
Spice Islands in India, this route was also used to bring silk
from China, ivory and expensive wood species from East
Africa, as well as silver, gold, and various precious stones.
Trade on this route was incessant, however,
depending on the political surroundings, certain sections
of the Spice Route would shift to safer regions. For
example, at the time when Herod came to the throne,
the main trading port on the Mediterranean coast was
Caesarea, while during the Crusades the caravans coming
from Petra would take more southern routes, arriving at
the Mediterranean Sea in El-Arish.
In the latter half of the first millennium bc, South
and West Arabian tribes gained control over the land trade
of spices going from South Arabia to the Mediterranean
Sea. With the rise of Islam, the overland caravan routes
going through the Suez and Egypt were closed off, in
reaction to which other countries began to develop means
of traveling by sea, which eventually resulted in the Age
of Discovery. Thus, discovery of the American continent
by European explorers was a major consequence of the
spice trade.
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Eugene Alexis Girardet.
Caravan in the Desert. 1870–1890
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he Hanseatic League (also known as the
Hansa or Hanse) was a defensive and
commercial confederation of merchant guilds
and their market towns, which influenced
Baltic maritime trade (ca. 1400–1800) with
their development of the most important medieval trade
routes in the Baltic Sea along the coast of Europe. The
routes stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea, as well
as inland, throughout the Late Middle Ages.
A German city called Lu¨beck became a central
node in the maritime trade, linking the areas around the
North and Baltic Seas. It served as a base for merchants
from Westphalia and Saxony who traded northward and
eastward, particularly in the eastern Baltic. Wax, amber,
timber, furs, and resins could be found in this area, while
wheat and rye were brought down on barges from the
hinterland to port markets.
The city’s location on the Baltic allowed for trade
with Kievan Rus and Scandinavia; the treaty with the
Swedish city of Visby provided merchants from Lu¨beck
access to the Russian inland port of Novgorod where a
trading post called Kontor (“office”) was built. The League
likewise established Kontors in Bergen (Norway), Bruges
(Flanders), and London (England).
The biggest concern of the League was protection
of open sea-lanes and safety of its ships from piracy, as well
as the common defense of the towns in north Germany.
The north German towns accepted this “law of Lu¨beck” in
1265.
Hansa’s legacy is commemorated today in several
names, such as F.C. Hansa Rostock, the German airline
Lufthansa (i.e., “Air Hansa”), and the Hanze University of
Applied Sciences, Groningen, in the Netherlands.
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Carl E. Larsen & Carl Johan Neumann. Shipping off a Baltic Port. 19th
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xtending from the Sub-Saharan West
African kingdoms across the Sahara desert
into Europe, the Saharan Routes provided
a connection between African empires such
as Songhay, Ghana and Mali and the European
world. Two main roads crossed the desert from the south
to the north. Pictures of ancient carts were discovered
along these roads, leading scientists to believe that these
trade routes had been used in antiquity. The North and
the South (Carthage and Ancient Rome) traded carbuncles
and ivory, with the tribes of garamantes, who lived on the
territory in between, acting as intermediaries.
Though existing since prehistoric times, the trade
industry of this area was at its prime between the 8th
and
late 16th
century. This was the period in which the two
mane routes developed — the first running from modern
day Morocco to the Niger Bend across the western desert,
and the second connecting the Lake Chad area with
modern Tunisia.
Caravans of camels were the main source of
transportation of goods, the main goods being gold and
salt, with the average size of the caravan being 1000 camels.
However, some caravans could be made up of as many as
12 000 camels. Berbers who knew the desert and could
guarantee a safe journey from their fellow desert nomads
were paid very well to guide the caravans. The trip across
the Sahara and back took approximately 18 months in the
peacetime.
Members of the Tuareg use the traditional caravan
routes to this day, traveling 2400 kilometers across the
Sahara for six months every year to trade in salt coming
from the middle of the desert to communities located on
its outskirts.
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therwise known as the Great Highway or the
Moscow Highway, the Siberian Route was
a 9457-kilometer long historic route that
connected European Russia with Siberia and
China.
The road’s construction did not begin until 1730, and
was not finished until the mid 1800s, despite the fact that
the Russian Tsar commanded it to be built only two months
after the conclusion of the Treaty of Nerchinsk between
China and Russia in 1689. Up until the construction of this
road, the Siberian river routes had served as the primary
Siberian transportation. The first Russian settlers came to
Siberia via the Cherdyn river route, which had preceded
the Babinov overland route, which came into use in the
late 1590s. The easternmost point of the Babinov Road was
the small town of Vekhoturye in the Ural Mountains.
Beginning in Moscow as the Vladimir Highway, and
passing through Kazan, Murom, Perm, Tyumen, Tobolsk,
Yekaterinburg, Yeniseysk, Tomsk, and Irkutsk, the Siberian
Route was much longer than the Babinov. The road split
near Verkhneudinsk after crossing Lake Baikal, with one
branch continuing east to Nerchinsk and the other —
south to the border post of Kyakhta, joining camel caravans
which crossed Mongolia to the Great Wall gate at Kalgan.
The route was moved to the south in the early 19th
century; from Tyumen the road went through Omsk, Tomsk,
Yalutorovsk, and Krasnoyarsk before reuniting with the
original route at Irkutsk. Up until the construction of the
Trans-Siberian Railway was finished in 1903, this route had
remained a crucial passage connecting Europe and Moscow
with Siberia.
This Route was also sometimes referred to as the
“Tea Road,” due to the large amounts of tea being moved
from China to Europe through Siberia.
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Nikolai Dobrovolsky. Ferriage over the Angara in Irkutsk. 1886
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he Northern Sea Route is a Russian sea
transport route in the Arctic. Outside of Russia
it is usually referred to as the Northeast
Passage. This is the shortest passage between
the European part of Russia and the Far East,
spanning the Bering Sea as well as the seas of the Arctic
Ocean. Timber, machinery, fuel, and subsoil resources are
all transported by the Northern Sea Route.
Since the 16th
century, Russian travelers and
merchants have explored this region. For example, in
1648 a strait between America and Asia was discovered by
a man named Semen Dezhnev. Peter the Great, the Tsar
and first Emperor of Russia, founded the Great Northern
expedition (1725–1743), as he was very invested in the
idea of connecting various parts of Russia by sea. The
excellent Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov worked
on a project involving the reclamation of the Northern
Sea Route. Many expeditions have been attempted since
then; however, ice has been a consistent obstacle. The vice
admiral Stepan Makarov proposed the construction of the
first ever icebreaker, called the Yermak, and commanded
her first voyage on the Northern Sea Route in 1899.
As of late, the international community has taken
interest in the Northern Sea Route, due to the enormous
savings in both time and distance for transport between
East Asia and Europe which it can offer. This route is, in
fact, twice as short as the routes via Panama or Suez. Ice
has always served as a hindrance to commercial traffic,
however, as recent scientific evidence shows, climate
change is causing the Arctic ice cover to gradually decrease
in size. If this trend continues, the Northern Sea Route
will become a commercially effective intercontinental
transit route.
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Cover image: Joseph Mallord William Turner. Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute. Ca. 1835
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Eugene Alexis Girardet. Caravan in the Desert. 1870–1890 — The Fine Art Society, London / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru
Claude Joseph Vernet. Morning view of the inner port of Marseille and the Pavilion of the Horloge du Parc. 1754 — Musee de la Marine, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru
Carl E. Larsen & Carl Johan Neumann. Shipping off a Baltic Port. 19th
century — Bourne Gallery, Reigate, Surrey / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru
Wassily Kandinsky. Merchants’ arrival. 1905 — Private Collection / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru
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  • 2. ince ancient times, people have been exploring unknown lands and foreign countries with customs and traditions different from their own. This eagerness for something new made people travel, discover new territories, create routes and build roads connecting distant parts of the globe. Merchants’ caravans carrying commodities, ambassadors, explorers and travelers walked along these routes. Trade, being one of the most significant factors of the historical process, encouraged the interaction of different cultures. At the same time, the representatives of different regions exchanged information from different fields of knowledge: inventions, technologies and crops were borrowed and assimilated. Although separated by long distances, civilizations established a dialogue, enriching each other and giving impulse to further development. The earliest information about trade relations between different countries dates back to the 2nd  millennium bc. At that period there were already trade routes which spanned the Ancient East including Bactria, Media, Persia, Armenia, India, Arabia and Western Asia. In antiquity trade was a risky business, but, on the other hand, it guaranteed a considerable profit in case of success. International trade flourished in peacetime and diminished in wartime, but never ceased. In the Middle Ages a stable and developed system of international trade routes functioned, connecting almost all the civilizations of the Old World: the Silk Road, the Saharan Trade Routes, the Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks, etc. New merchants’ commercial confederations like the Hanseatic League and such city-states as medieval Venice and Genoa came into existence, specializing in international trade. Beginning with the Age of Discovery (since 1475), an opportunity to deliver Indian goods to European ports only by sea has become available. The Manila Galleons, which sailed over the Pacific Ocean from Manila (the Philippines) to Acapulco (Mexico) embodied Christopher Columbus’s dream about trading with the East. Most of those ancient routes are nowadays not more than objects of historical research, however, some of them — for example, the Saharan Trade Routes or the Great Trunk Road — are still in use, keeping up with the modern pace of life. Trade routes continue their everlasting journey through space and time, connecting countries and being the media of the dialogue of civilizations. S great       of civilizationsroutes PaoloForlani.Universaledescrittionedituttalaterraconosciutafinqui.PublishedbyFerandoBerteli,Venezia,1565.
  • 3. 2016 his trade route, which connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus, and the Byzantine Empire, allowed traders from both Kievan Rus and Byzantine to establish prosperous, direct trade amongst each other. The route was in the form of a long-distance waterway, which traveled through the Baltic Sea as well as several rivers flowing into it, and rivers of the Dnieper river system with portages located on the drainage divides. Although first mentioned in the Primary Chronicle, this route’s impact was reported much earlier — in the early 9th century, when the Byzantines noticed some newcomers in their regions, these being Varangians. Today, the word “Varangians” means “Vikings,” however, for the Byzantines, this was a term used to describe all Scandinavians, including several tribes living on the territory of modern-day Russia. The Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks was used primarily to transport various merchandise. Wine and spices, jewelry and glass, expensive fabrics, icons and books would be brought up from the Byzantine Empire. Kiev would trade in silver coins, bread, and handmade goods, among others. Spinning wheels came from Volyn, handicrafts and weaponry — from Scandinavia. Northern Rus, in turn, offered fur, timber, wax and honey, while the Baltic tribes would trade mostly in amber. Routes that were more advantageous were opened with the Crusades in the second half of the 11th century. By that time, Rus had already strengthened its commercial ties with Western Europe, causing the Route from the Varangians to the Greeks to gradually lose its significance. T great       of civilizationsroutes Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 januaryjanuary Nikolai Rerikh. Overseas guests. 1901 thetraderoutefrom thevarangianstothegreeks
  • 4. great       of civilizationsroutes 2016 he Amber Road is an ancient trade route, which was used to transfer amber from coastal areas of the North and Baltic Seas to the Mediterranean Sea. Amber trade had defined prehistoric trade routes between Northern and Southern Europe. This significant raw material, termed “the gold of the north,” was transported from the North and Baltic Sea coasts to Italy, Greece, the Black Sea, Syria and Egypt by way of the Vistula and Dnieper rivers for thousands of years, beginning in the 16th  century bc. Large amber beads were found in the breast ornament of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen (ca. 1333–1324 bc), and it is known that amber was sent as an offering to the temple of Apollo at Delphi from the North Sea. From the Black Sea, trade continued to Asia along another ancient trade route called the Silk Road. Kaup and Truso, two Old Prussian towns on the Baltic, served as the starting points of the route to the south. Traders traveled south to Carnantum, the Roman Legionary camp in the Alps, and from there, after about 2000 kilometers of paths and unpaved trails leading south from the Baltic Sea, the Amber Road joined the large network of Roman roads which connected all parts of the Empire. The Via Gemina was the last section of the road, which connected Emona and Aquileia: the Roman capital of the Venetians and the most important Adriatic port of the Roman Empire. Segments of the Roman Amber road can be found today in the Austrian province of Burgenland, as well as in Hungary and Slovenia — and, of course, in Aquileia (Italy). T Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 februaryfebruary Ivan Shishkin. After the tempest. Meri-Khovi. 1891 theamberroad
  • 5. thesilkroad 2016 great       of civilizationsroutes n ancient network of trade routes was vital for cultural interactions through various regions of the Asian continent. This was the purpose served by the Silk Road, or the Silk Route, which connected the West and the East and enabled merchants, soldiers, pilgrims, monks, urban dwellers and nomads to travel from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea. The Silk Road is over 6437 kilometers in length, and derives its name from the historic trade of Chinese silk, which began to be carried out on this road during the Han dynasty (206 bc — 220 ad). Around 114 bc, the Han dynasty expanded the Central Asian segments of the trade routes with the aid of the missions and expeditions of Zhang Qian, a Chinese imperial envoy. Taking great interest in the safe transportation of their trade products, the Chinese extended the Great Wall of China in order to ensure the protection of the trade route. Trade along the Silk Road opened long-distance political and economic relations between the civilizations of China, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, and was generally an important factor in their development. Silk was definitely the major trade item from China; however, many other goods were traded along the route. In fact, the Silk Road served as a means of cultural interaction among civilizations — with people, religions, syncretic philosophies and technologies travelling along its network. The United Nations World Tourism Organization, since 1993, has been working towards fostering peace and understanding through the development of sustainable international tourism along the Silk Route. A Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 marchmarch Nikolai Rusakov. Caravans are walking. 1920s
  • 6. great       of civilizationsroutes 2016 he Radhanites were medieval Jewish merchants who played a major role in trade between the Christian and Islamic worlds in the early Middle Ages (ca. 500–1000). Their trade network was quite vast, covering much of North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Europe, and parts of India and China — including many already established trade routes from the Roman Empire, which continued to function at this time largely through their efforts. Throughout the Early Middle Ages, it was common practice in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa and the Christian kingdoms of Europe to forbid one another’s merchants from entering their ports. Corsairs from both sides raided the shipping of their enemy, and the Radhanites acted as neutral intermediaries to aid both sides in open communication and trade between the territories of the old Roman Empire and the Far East. There were four main trade routes utilized by the Radhanites — all beginning in the Rhone Valley in southern France and stretching all the way to the east coast of China. The Radhanites mainly transported commodities which combined small bulk and high demand, including perfumes, jewelry, spices and silk. When the Tang Dynasty of China fell in 908, and the Khazar Khaganate was destructed some sixty years later (ca. 968–969 ad), the lands of Inner Eurasia, the Caucasus and China were left in widespread chaos. This caused trade routes to become unsafe and unstable, a situation which was intensified by Turkish invasions of the Middle East and Persia. The Silk Road collapsed for centuries, and the Radhanites, in turn, largely disappeared by the beginning of the 11th century. T Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 aprilapril thetraderoutesof theradhanites Claude Joseph Vernet. Morning view of the inner port of Marseille and the Pavilion of the Horloge du Parc. 1754
  • 7. ne of Asia’s longest and oldest major roads, the Grand Trunk Road has bridged the gap between the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent (South and Central Asia) for over two millennia. It connects Chittagong, Bangladesh west to Howrah, West Bengal in India, traveling across Northern India into Lahore in Pakistan, as well as further north to Kabul in Afghanistan. Formerly it was called Uttara Patha (“Road to the North”) and Shah Rah-e-Azam (“Great Road”). This route existed originally in the Maurya Empire, stretching from the mouth of the Ganges to the northwestern frontier. In the 16th century, the Afghan emperor Sher Shah Suri extended and renovated the ancient Mauryan route, producing the predecessor of the modern road. The road was rebuilt next in the British period, between 1833 and 1860, and only then received its modern name — the Grand Trunk Road. This road, one of the most important trade routes in the region, simplified both travel and communication over the centuries. As far back as the era of Sher Shah Suri, caravansarais (highway inns) could be found throughout the road at regular intervals, and trees were planted on each side of the road for shade. The road was well planned, with milestones along the entire stretch of the road, which can still be seen along the present Delhi-Ambala highway. Today, the Grand Trunk Road still measures over 2500 kilometers in length, and remains a major channel between India and Pakistan. O great       of civilizationsroutes 2016 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 maymay Vasily Vereshchagin. India. Delhi. A cart. 1875 thegrandtrunkroad
  • 8. 2016 he Manila Galleons, otherwise known as the Manila — Acapulco Galleons, were Spanish trading ships, which sailed a couple times a year across the Pacific Ocean from Manila, Philippines, to Acapulco, New Spain (modern- day Mexico). These ships began to sail this route in 1565, after the discovery of the ocean passage by Andre´s de Urdaneta and continued up until 1815, when the Mexican War of Independence permanently terminated the galleon trade route. Spanish colonists on the Philippine Islands relied on trade as their principal income-generating business, and over the 250 years of the Manila — Acapulco galleon trade, a total of 110 galleons set sail. These galleons carried porcelain, ivory, lacquer- ware, spices, and processed silk cloth gathered from both Asia-Pacific and the Spice Island to be sold in European markets. The trip across the Pacific Ocean from Manila to Acapulco and then to Spain itself took four months. The cargoes left for Spain on board the Spanish treasure fleet from the port of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico, to which they were transported by land across Mexico. This allowed them to avoid the dangerous and long journey across the Indian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope, a route eventually prohibited by the Dutch after they gained control of the Cape Colony. A great number of the Spaniards living in the Philippines were, in fact, of Mexican descent, which explains the fact that the Hispanic culture of the Philippines is more similar to that of Mexico than any other. For almost three centuries, the Manila Galleons sailed to Spain across the Pacific, delivering cargoes full of luxury goods, cultural exchange and economic benefits. T great       of civilizationsroutes Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 junejune Cornelis Verbeeck. Marine with three large sailing ships. 17th century themanilagaleons
  • 9. 2016 orthern Europe and Northwestern Russia were connected to the Caspian Sea via the Volga River by this trade route in the Middle Ages. Rus and Muslim countries would use this waterway to trade on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. In the early 800s, Norsemen who came to Northwestern Russia established the Volga Trade Route. They built a settlement called Aldeigjuborg (Slavic: Staraya Ladoga) approximately six miles south of the Volkhov River Entry into Lake Ladoga. Varangians would travel from Aldeigjuborg to Novgorod along the Volkhov River, continuing to Lake Ilmen and further along the River Lovat to take their boats through a portage which led to the sources of the Volga. Through the territory held by Permian and Finnish tribes, the traders brought furs and honey to the land of the Volga Bulgars. They would then continue down the Volga to the capital of the Khazar Khaganate, Atil, from which the Rus merchants would embark across the sea and, finally, join the caravan routes which led to Baghdad. The Volga Route was crucial in various situations — first in the inner trade of the Golden Horde, and, after that, between the Tatar Khanates and the Grand Duchy of Moscow. There were some Russian merchants who travelled even farther — Afanasy Nikitin, for example, sailed the Volga from Tver to Astrakhan in 1466, went across the Caspian Sea, eventually reaching Persia and India. The decline of silver output in the Abbasid caliphate caused the Volga Trade Route to lose its significance by the 11th century, leading to increased use of the Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks down the Dnieper River. N great       of civilizationsroutes Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 julyjuly Wassily Kandinsky. Merchants’ arrival. 1905 thevolgatraderoute
  • 10. augustaugust 2016 ne of the oldest trade routes to connect India, the secret Spice Islands of Banda and Maluku and East Africa with the countries of the Mediterranean is called the Spice Route. Leaving from the ports of the Red and Arabian Seas, spices like nutmeg, pepper, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon were transferred from ships to caravans, they then passed through Petra and continued all the way to the Mediterranean coast. Throughout the reign of King Solomon, the overland section of the route went into Ezion-Geber, a town near the Eilat Bay coast. Besides transporting spices from the Spice Islands in India, this route was also used to bring silk from China, ivory and expensive wood species from East Africa, as well as silver, gold, and various precious stones. Trade on this route was incessant, however, depending on the political surroundings, certain sections of the Spice Route would shift to safer regions. For example, at the time when Herod came to the throne, the main trading port on the Mediterranean coast was Caesarea, while during the Crusades the caravans coming from Petra would take more southern routes, arriving at the Mediterranean Sea in El-Arish. In the latter half of the first millennium bc, South and West Arabian tribes gained control over the land trade of spices going from South Arabia to the Mediterranean Sea. With the rise of Islam, the overland caravan routes going through the Suez and Egypt were closed off, in reaction to which other countries began to develop means of traveling by sea, which eventually resulted in the Age of Discovery. Thus, discovery of the American continent by European explorers was a major consequence of the spice trade. O great       of civilizationsroutes Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 the spiceroute Eugene Alexis Girardet. Caravan in the Desert. 1870–1890
  • 11. 2016 he Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa or Hanse) was a defensive and commercial confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns, which influenced Baltic maritime trade (ca. 1400–1800) with their development of the most important medieval trade routes in the Baltic Sea along the coast of Europe. The routes stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea, as well as inland, throughout the Late Middle Ages. A German city called Lu¨beck became a central node in the maritime trade, linking the areas around the North and Baltic Seas. It served as a base for merchants from Westphalia and Saxony who traded northward and eastward, particularly in the eastern Baltic. Wax, amber, timber, furs, and resins could be found in this area, while wheat and rye were brought down on barges from the hinterland to port markets. The city’s location on the Baltic allowed for trade with Kievan Rus and Scandinavia; the treaty with the Swedish city of Visby provided merchants from Lu¨beck access to the Russian inland port of Novgorod where a trading post called Kontor (“office”) was built. The League likewise established Kontors in Bergen (Norway), Bruges (Flanders), and London (England). The biggest concern of the League was protection of open sea-lanes and safety of its ships from piracy, as well as the common defense of the towns in north Germany. The north German towns accepted this “law of Lu¨beck” in 1265. Hansa’s legacy is commemorated today in several names, such as F.C. Hansa Rostock, the German airline Lufthansa (i.e., “Air Hansa”), and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, in the Netherlands. T great       of civilizationsroutes Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 septemberseptember Carl E. Larsen & Carl Johan Neumann. Shipping off a Baltic Port. 19th century thehanseatic traderoutes
  • 12. xtending from the Sub-Saharan West African kingdoms across the Sahara desert into Europe, the Saharan Routes provided a connection between African empires such as Songhay, Ghana and Mali and the European world. Two main roads crossed the desert from the south to the north. Pictures of ancient carts were discovered along these roads, leading scientists to believe that these trade routes had been used in antiquity. The North and the South (Carthage and Ancient Rome) traded carbuncles and ivory, with the tribes of garamantes, who lived on the territory in between, acting as intermediaries. Though existing since prehistoric times, the trade industry of this area was at its prime between the 8th and late 16th century. This was the period in which the two mane routes developed — the first running from modern day Morocco to the Niger Bend across the western desert, and the second connecting the Lake Chad area with modern Tunisia. Caravans of camels were the main source of transportation of goods, the main goods being gold and salt, with the average size of the caravan being 1000 camels. However, some caravans could be made up of as many as 12 000 camels. Berbers who knew the desert and could guarantee a safe journey from their fellow desert nomads were paid very well to guide the caravans. The trip across the Sahara and back took approximately 18 months in the peacetime. Members of the Tuareg use the traditional caravan routes to this day, traveling 2400 kilometers across the Sahara for six months every year to trade in salt coming from the middle of the desert to communities located on its outskirts. E great       of civilizationsroutes 2016 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 octoberoctober thesaharan traderoutes Martiros Saryan. The fellah village. 1911
  • 13. 2016 therwise known as the Great Highway or the Moscow Highway, the Siberian Route was a 9457-kilometer long historic route that connected European Russia with Siberia and China. The road’s construction did not begin until 1730, and was not finished until the mid 1800s, despite the fact that the Russian Tsar commanded it to be built only two months after the conclusion of the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia in 1689. Up until the construction of this road, the Siberian river routes had served as the primary Siberian transportation. The first Russian settlers came to Siberia via the Cherdyn river route, which had preceded the Babinov overland route, which came into use in the late 1590s. The easternmost point of the Babinov Road was the small town of Vekhoturye in the Ural Mountains. Beginning in Moscow as the Vladimir Highway, and passing through Kazan, Murom, Perm, Tyumen, Tobolsk, Yekaterinburg, Yeniseysk, Tomsk, and Irkutsk, the Siberian Route was much longer than the Babinov. The road split near Verkhneudinsk after crossing Lake Baikal, with one branch continuing east to Nerchinsk and the other — south to the border post of Kyakhta, joining camel caravans which crossed Mongolia to the Great Wall gate at Kalgan. The route was moved to the south in the early 19th century; from Tyumen the road went through Omsk, Tomsk, Yalutorovsk, and Krasnoyarsk before reuniting with the original route at Irkutsk. Up until the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was finished in 1903, this route had remained a crucial passage connecting Europe and Moscow with Siberia. This Route was also sometimes referred to as the “Tea Road,” due to the large amounts of tea being moved from China to Europe through Siberia. O Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 novembernovember great       of civilizationsroutes Nikolai Dobrovolsky. Ferriage over the Angara in Irkutsk. 1886 thesiberianroute
  • 14. 2016 great       of civilizationsroutes he Northern Sea Route is a Russian sea transport route in the Arctic. Outside of Russia it is usually referred to as the Northeast Passage. This is the shortest passage between the European part of Russia and the Far East, spanning the Bering Sea as well as the seas of the Arctic Ocean. Timber, machinery, fuel, and subsoil resources are all transported by the Northern Sea Route. Since the 16th century, Russian travelers and merchants have explored this region. For example, in 1648 a strait between America and Asia was discovered by a man named Semen Dezhnev. Peter the Great, the Tsar and first Emperor of Russia, founded the Great Northern expedition (1725–1743), as he was very invested in the idea of connecting various parts of Russia by sea. The excellent Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov worked on a project involving the reclamation of the Northern Sea Route. Many expeditions have been attempted since then; however, ice has been a consistent obstacle. The vice admiral Stepan Makarov proposed the construction of the first ever icebreaker, called the Yermak, and commanded her first voyage on the Northern Sea Route in 1899. As of late, the international community has taken interest in the Northern Sea Route, due to the enormous savings in both time and distance for transport between East Asia and Europe which it can offer. This route is, in fact, twice as short as the routes via Panama or Suez. Ice has always served as a hindrance to commercial traffic, however, as recent scientific evidence shows, climate change is causing the Arctic ice cover to gradually decrease in size. If this trend continues, the Northern Sea Route will become a commercially effective intercontinental transit route. T Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 decemberdecember Arkady Rylov. In the blue open. 1918 thenorthern searoute
  • 15. Studio “4+4” Ltd. Tel.: +7 495 229-14-43 e-mail: studio@4and4.ru Conception: Dmitry Ablin Editing: Elena Borisova Text: Ekaterina Parfenova Design: Vladimir Vinogradov © World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations”, 2015 www.wpfdc.org Cover image: Joseph Mallord William Turner. Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute. Ca. 1835 Images credits: Eugene Alexis Girardet. Caravan in the Desert. 1870–1890 — The Fine Art Society, London / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru Claude Joseph Vernet. Morning view of the inner port of Marseille and the Pavilion of the Horloge du Parc. 1754 — Musee de la Marine, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru Carl E. Larsen & Carl Johan Neumann. Shipping off a Baltic Port. 19th century — Bourne Gallery, Reigate, Surrey / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru Wassily Kandinsky. Merchants’ arrival. 1905 — Private Collection / Bridgeman Images / fotodom.ru great       of civilizationsroutes calendar 2016