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Using text and colour photographs, this publication explores the history of three ancient trade routes (silk, scent and spice merchandise) and their impact on the development and spread of new ideas, technologies and religions across the world. The oldest route was the Incense Trail, which linked the frankincense-producing regions of Arabia with the empires of antiquity, including Egypt, Babylon and Rome. The Silk Road was the longest overland trade route, stretching across the mountains, deserts and steppes of Central Asia, joining the markets of China with those of Europe and the Middle East. The Spice Route was a network of sea lanes which connected the great civilisations of Europe, India and the Orient for over 2,000 years, and this lucrative trade bred impelled Columbus to cross the Atlantic and Magellan to circumnavigate the globe.

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