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The Silk Road's Hidden Faiths: Sogdian Merchants

The Silk Road's Hidden Faiths: Sogdian Merchants

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For anyone coming with us through these conversations — about World history and the unexpected ways faith built nations. We often think of empires as monoliths, but the real engine of religious diffusion in the first millennium was less about armies and more about ledgers. This episode explores the Sogdian merchants, the Zoroastrian fire temples they carried like portable shrines, and how their trade networks became the nervous system for Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity, and Buddhism across Eurasia. We look at the Sogdian Old Letters to see how a merchant in Dunhuang wrote home about political upheaval, and how these traders acted as cultural translators, carrying not just silk and spices, but entire theological systems from Samarkand to Chang'an. We examine the specific mechanisms of this spiritual commerce, including the role of the mōbad and the way Sogdian served as the lingua franca of religion long before Arabic or Mandarin dominated the conversation. #Sogdiana #Samarkand #SilkRoad #Zoroastrianism #Manichaeism #NestorianChristianity #Dunhuang #TangDynasty #SogdianOldLetters #Kumarajiva #Avestan #Tocharians #Kucha #AnLushanRebellion #GaoXianzhi #Talass #History #FexingoHistory #AncientTrade Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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