10. China's Han Dynasty - The First Empire in Flames
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Silk, the Most Valuable of Chinese Exports
The taklamakan desert is the world's second largest shifting sands desert, with over 85 % of it made up of dramatic sand dunes. The music you are hearing now is a traditional song of the weager people recorded in the ancient oasis town of turpan. In the province of shin yang, on its border with afghanistan, kurgestan, tajikistan and kashmere to day, half the people of the tarim basin belong to the weager ethnicity. For millennia, this kind of music has drifted over the shifting sands of this desert, while trade caravans passed Y in their thousands. But for the chinese of the
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