Ifart history9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() “ Trade between the Romans and the Empires of Asia.” (October 2000)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ Urartu.” (October 2004)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ Animals in Ancient Near Eastern Art.” (February 2014)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ Ugarit.” (October 2004)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ Ebla in the Third Millennium B.C.” (October 2002)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ Uruk: The First City.” (October 2003)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. ![]() “ Ur: The Ziggurat.” (October 2002)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ Ur: The Royal Graves.” (October 2003)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ The Ubaid Period (5500–4000 B.C.).” (October 2003)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ The Halaf Period (6500–5500 B.C.).” (October 2003)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. “ The Hittites.” (October 2002)ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. Additional Essays by Department of Ancient Near Eastern Artĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. The Silk Route: Trade, Travel, War and Faith. Whitfield, Susan, with Ursula Sims-Williams, eds. ![]() Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. “Trade Routes between Europe and Asia during Antiquity.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. These connections are reflected, for example, in the sculptural styles of Gandhara (modern-day Pakistan and northern India) and Gaul (modern-day France), both influenced by the Hellenistic styles popularized by the Romans.ĭepartment of Ancient Near Eastern Art. New inventions, religious beliefs, artistic styles, languages, and social customs, as well as goods and raw materials, were transmitted by people moving from one place to another to conduct business. The trade routes were the communications highways of the ancient world. They also became cultural and artistic centers, where peoples of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds could meet and intermingle. Some, like Palmyra and Petra on the fringes of the Syrian Desert, flourished mainly as centers of trade supplying merchant caravans and policing the trade routes. Another important trade route, known as the Incense Route, was controlled by the Arabs, who brought frankincense and myrrh by camel caravan from South Arabia.Ĭities along these trade routes grew rich providing services to merchants and acting as international marketplaces. These goods were transported over vast distances- either by pack animals overland or by seagoing ships-along the Silk and Spice Routes, which were the main arteries of contact between the various ancient empires of the Old World. China, for example, supplied West Asia and the Mediterranean world with silk, while spices were obtained principally from South Asia. Some areas had a monopoly on certain materials or goods. The trade routes served principally to transfer raw materials, foodstuffs, and luxury goods from areas with surpluses to others where they were in short supply. Some of these trade routes had been in use for centuries, but by the beginning of the first century A.D., merchants, diplomats, and travelers could (in theory) cross the ancient world from Britain and Spain in the west to China and Japan in the east. Long-distance trade played a major role in the cultural, religious, and artistic exchanges that took place between the major centers of civilization in Europe and Asia during antiquity. ![]()
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