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You think you know the Silk Road? Camel caravans carrying luxurious fabric. The reality is far more complex, more dangerous, and infinitely more important. The Silk Road wasn't a road, and in the beginning, it wasn't even about trade. It began as a desperate military gamble.
This documentary investigates the true economic history of the world's most famous network of ancient trade. We reveal how a military crisis on the frontier of Han Dynasty China accidentally sparked a global economic revolution, connecting the great civilizations of East and West for the first time.
Join us as we uncover:
► The secrets of Chinese silk technology—a monopoly punishable by death.
► The epic journey of Zhang Qian, the "Father of the Silk Road," whose mission was for military allies, not markets.
► The "War of the Heavenly Horses": how an emperor's obsession with a military asset opened the trade routes by force.
► The invisible power brokers: how the Parthian Empire and Sogdian merchants controlled the profits.
► The real exchange: how religion, technology, and even disease changed the world more than silk ever did.
This is the story of how one geopolitical gamble rewrote history, created the first global economy, and forever wove the destinies of East and West together.
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