Influences of The Silk Road
by umfablog
When I went through the UMFA’s new exhibition, Influences of the Silk Road, I was very much intrigued by what I saw. I loved seeing how ideas like chess, jade, Hinduism, and even the camera obscura, were spread by merchants traveling this ancient route. I knew that the Silk Road was a system of trade routes that crossed through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, but I did not realize that it helped to spread so many ideas that we […]
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