Peter Frankopan on the Silk Roads
\u201cOnce upon a time, Europe wasn\u2019t the center of anything,\u201d Peter Frankopan contends, placing Central Asia and its prolific Silk Roads at the center of world development. Frankopan tells us how the Silk Roads were more than just ancient trade routes\u2014they were a network of arteries that connected continents and people by spreading economic, scientific, religious, and cultural goods and ideas. Frankopan is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford; Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research; and author of \u201cThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World.\u201d