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The Sogdian Merchants Who Built the Silk Road

The Sogdian Merchants Who Built the Silk Road

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Long before the Mongols or the Venetians, a forgotten people from the Zeravshan River valley dominated the Silk Road for over a thousand years. The Sogdians were not conquerors or empire builders—they were merchants, translators, and cultural middlemen who moved goods, religions, and ideas between China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean. This episode follows a single Sogdian letter found in a watchtower near Dunhuang, a desperate plea written by a woman named Miwnay to her mother in Samarkand around 313 AD. Lucas and Luna explore how Sogdian trading networks stretched across Central Asia, how their language became the lingua franca of the Silk Road, and how their influence quietly shaped the spread of Buddhism, Manichaeism, and even Nestorian Christianity into China. We also discuss the Sogdian rock-cut city of Varakhsha and the mysterious zhizhu coins, and how the Arab conquests of the 8th century slowly erased their world. #Sogdians #SilkRoad #CentralAsia #Samarkand #Dunhuang #Miwnay #AncientLetters #ZeravshanRiver #Varakhsha #SogdianLanguage #Manichaeism #Nestorianism #Buddhism #TradeHistory #AncientCommerce #History #FexingoHistory #Podcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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