The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium ... so retaliated by embargoing trade with Europe. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, China was once again shut off from the outside world ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road ... 1,500 years from the Han Dynasty, when the government began to station garrisons there, until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ...

For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A.D. 629 ... finally shutting itself off from the world during the Ming dynasty in the 14th century. "Unlike Indian Buddhists, the Chinese ...

But this small shard of porcelain, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1520–1570), rewrote ... the extensive network of ancient trade routes, such as the Silk Road, makes it plausible that traders ...

The discovery is the earliest found so far in southern China, dating a whopping 3,000 years to the early Shang dynasty ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Silk Road of the Eastern Dynasty Experience the perfect combination of tower defense and the historical plot of the Silk Road, so as to bring an ...

Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction, spreading westward into the Gobi desert to guard the Silk Road ... it largely dates from the Ming dynasty from the 14th to the ...

Situated in China, the Ming ... a road. Ming's unique military unit is the Xunleichong, a ranged infantry unit that gains increased Combat Strength in featureless terrain. The Ming dynasty ...