~KUBLAI KHAN~ <script> window.defaultStatus="Diary of a traveller-Kublai Khan"; </script> <img style="position: absolute; top:90; left:70" src="http:i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff309/vicshalyn/joint-kublaikhan.jpg"> <script language=JavaScript>  </script> <style type="text/css"> A:link {text-decoration:none; font:9px tahoma; color:686455; text-transform:uppercase} A:visited {text-decoration:none; font:9px tahoma; color:686455; text-transform:uppercase} A:hover {cursor:crosshair; color:b9a894; border-bottom:1px solid #b9a894} body { background-color:fffacd; cursor:vertical-text; font:9px century gothic; color:maroon; text-align:center; scrollbar-face-color:deb887; scrollbar-highlight-color:f5deb3; scrollbar-3dlight-color:f5deb3; scrollbar-shadow-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-darkshadow-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-track-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-arrow-color:8b4513} background:fffacd; padding-top:2; padding-right:3; font:15pt georgia; font-weight:bold; color:a0522d; text-align:center; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:-3; line-height:10pt; border-bottom:0px solid #f29ab7} .2{ background:b0e0e6; font:10px palatino linotype; font-weight:bold; color:bebebe; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:left} .time{ font:8pt georgia; font-weight:bold; color:2f4f4f; text-align:right; text-transform:uppercase; border-bottom:2px dotted #f41f47} b{font:8pt tahoma; font-weight:bold; color:f934b1; text-transform:uppercase} u{color:a2cd3a; border-bottom:1px dashed #aeebfa; letter-spacing:-1} i{font:10px tahoma; font-style:italic; color:6cb9d5} s{font:7px small fonts; color:b2b7e2; text-transform:uppercase} </style><meta name='google-adsense-platform-account' content='ca-host-pub-1556223355139109'/> <meta name='google-adsense-platform-domain' content='blogspot.com'/> <style type="text/css">@import url(https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/v-css/navbar/3334278262-classic.css); div.b-mobile {display:none;} </style> </head><noembed><body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar/6080290773791365201?origin\x3dhttp://diary-s-traveller.blogspot.com', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script></noembed> <div style="position:absolute; top:480; left:330; width:300; background:faf7ec" id="entry"> <div class=1>Saturday, August 25, 2007</div> <div class=2>~Routes of the Silk Road~</div> <p><div style="clear:both;"></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;color:#6600cc;">Routes of the Silk Road</span></em></strong><br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#993399;"><strong>The Silk Road was not one road but a series of caravan routes which connected China in the east with cities in the west.</strong></span> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333399;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333399;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333399;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333399;"><strong></strong></span></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333399;"><strong>The eastern routes began in Xi'an (Chang'an), the once capital of China and traveled westward following a variety of routes.</strong></span> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6633ff;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6633ff;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6633ff;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6633ff;"><strong></strong></span></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6633ff;"><strong>One route went northwest, passing through the Gansu corridor to the oasis of Dunhuang at the edge of the Gobi desert. Leaving this oasis town through the famous "Jade Gate", travelers skirted the dreaded Taklamakan desert continuing to head northwest to Turfan, Kucha, Urumqui, Aksu, Tumchuq, finally reaching Kashgar near what is today the boarder of <span style="color:#6600cc;">Pakistan</span></strong></span>. </span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#000099;"></span></strong> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#000099;">Another eastward moving route took caravans through the "Jade Gate" and skirted the northern shore of the 'wandering lake' at Lop-nor. It passed through the oasis town of Lou-lan before rejoining the main northern route.</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6600cc;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6600cc;"></span></strong></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6600cc;">The southern route followed the oases towns including Miran, Endere, Niya, Khotan and Yarkand. and went northward to join the northern route in Kashgar.</span></strong> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#6600cc;"><strong>From there the Silk Road continued westwards across the High Pamir mountains out of China and into what is now Soviet Central Asia, continuing via Khokand, Samarkand, Bokhara, Merv, through Persia and Iraq, to the Mediterranean coast. Ships then carried merchandise to Rome and Alexandria.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#330099;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#330099;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330099;"><strong></strong></span></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#330099;"><strong>Another branch left the southern route at the far end of the Taklamakan and took in Balkh, today in northern Afghanistan, rejoining the westbound Silk Road at Merv</strong></span>. <span style="font-family:arial;color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6600cc;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#6600cc;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Another road left the southern route at Yarkand and traveled southward across the Karakoram passes to the towns of Leh and Srinagar, before finally reaching the markets of Bombay, India<br /></div></span></strong></span><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://diary-s-traveller.blogspot.com/search/label/Silk%20Road">Silk Road</a></p> <p class=time>XOXO NAME</p><p> <p> </DIV> <div style="position:absolute; top:480; left:114; width:160; background:#FFFFFF" id="navigation"> <div class=1>♥ welcome</div> <br>KUBLAI KHAN'S DIARY <br><br> <div class=2>site info</div> This is the diary of the traveller, Kublai Khan.<br> <br><br> <div class=1>About the Yuan Ruler</div> <b>Name: Kublai Khan</b> <br>Also known by the nickname:Setsen Khan or the Wise Khan<br> Lifespan:1215-1294<br> He died at the age of 79<br> Nationality:Mongol<br> <br><br> <br><br> <div class=2>credits</div> <br>Hosts + <a href="http://www.blogger.com">1</a> . <a href="http://www.photobucket.com">2</a> <br>Basecodes + <a href="http://www.sliquee.blogspot.com">Sab</a><a href="http://blogskins.com/me/prideavenued">rina</a> <br>Images + <a href="http://photobucket.com">1</a>Images + <a href="http://photobucket.com"></a> <br>Font + <a href="http://juvenilecasualty.net ">1</a> <a href="http://juvenilecasualty.net">2</a> . <a href="http://moargh.de">3</a> . <a href="http://romance-box.org">4</a> <br>Designer + <a href="http://www.mixedabsolution.blogspot.com">EST</a><a href="http://blogskins.com/me/xue4848">HER</a> <br>Editor + GIMP <br><br> <div class=2>tagboard</div><br>  <div align="center" id="cboxdiv"> <iframe frameborder="0" width="160" height="305" src="http://www2.cbox.ws/box/?boxid=1537976&boxtag=4105&sec=main" marginheight="2" marginwidth="2" scrolling="auto" allowtransparency="yes" name="cboxmain" style="border:#F6F3E0 1px solid;" id="cboxmain"></iframe><br/> <iframe frameborder="0" width="160" height="75" src="http://www2.cbox.ws/box/?boxid=1537976&boxtag=4105&sec=form" marginheight="2" marginwidth="2" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="yes" name="cboxform" style="border:#F6F3E0 1px solid;border-top:0px" id="cboxform"></iframe> </div>  <br><br></body></html>