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Silk Road trade: A preliminary study on why Sogdian merchants dominate Chinese merchants in Tang Dynasty
Tang Dynasty was long regarded as the Golden age in the history of China. As the largest empire in the period, it enjoys a dominant role in many areas like military and economy. Despite the privilege, Tang merchants were not successful in the trading along silk road, which was dominated by the sogdian, a group of Iranian people living in the Central Asia. Sogdian occupied a key position along the Silk Road, playing a major role in facilitating trade between China and Central Asia and dominating the East-West trade. This studies focus on investigating why Sogdian can dominate in Silk Road Trade in geographical, political and cultural perspective. Also, the disadvantage of Chinese in Silk Road Trade was also investigated.
Geographical
Sogdian didn’t form a political state over its history. It was mainly centered around their main city of Samarkand(撒馬爾干). Though the......

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