The Greek colonies of Central Asia that had been left behind after the collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great had, by the 1st century BCE, largely converted from Greco-Roman paganism to ...

The region that is now Afghanistan seems to have been mainly Buddhist on the eve of the Muslim conquests in the 7th century CE. Much of the Silk Road economy was in the hands of Buddhist traders and ...

Dr Ravia Gupta, Dr Smruti Smita Mohapatra “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...

The Silk Road ... those regions too: Buddhism, Islam, Christianity. During this period we see the expansion of Islam through military conquest which was accompanied by the transmission of Islamic ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across ... encompassing the spread of Christianity ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...