Season 1, Episode 2
In the second episode of his series tracing the story of the most famous trade route in history, Dr Sam Willis travels west to central Asia, a part of the Silk Road often overlooked and yet the place of major innovations, big historical characters and a people – the Sogdians – whose role was pivotal to its success. In the high mountain passes of Tajikistan, Sam meets the last survivors of that race, who once traded from the Mediterranean to the China Sea. In the Uzbek cities of Samarkand and Bukara, he discovers how they were built by armies of captive craftsmen for one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever seen – Timur. From here, Sam follows the flow of goods back towards the markets of the west, showing how their trading culture sparked cultural, technical and artistic revolutions all along the Silk Road, and goes back to school to learn where modern mathematics and astronomy were born.
Season 1, Episode 3
Sam Willis continues his journey in Iran, the first time a BBC crew has been allowed into the country for nearly 10 years. He visits Persepolis, the city that was at the heart of the Persian empire, before following an ancient caravan route through the desert. Along the way, he stops at a Zoroastrian temple before arriving at Istanbul, where he discovers the influence the silk trade had on the Roman empire, and finally returns to Venice, where he visits Marco Polo’s house. Last in the series.
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