How the Black Death Changed the Silk Road Forever

This is the Silk Road as you've never seen it: a battlefield, a lab of ideas, and ultimately, a corridor for both progress and plague.
The Silk Road wasn’t just about silks and spices. It was also a highway for innovation, empire—and deadly pandemics. This documentary reveals how warfare, military breakthroughs, and early globalization transformed this legendary trade network—and how the arrival of the Black Death brought the entire system to its knees. From the Xiongnu nomads and their recurved bows, to the Roman Empire’s clashes with ""barbarians,"" and the Mongol Empire’s unexpected creation of a peaceful trade boom—this is the story of how technology and terror intertwined on the world’s most important trade route. We trace the invention of arrowheads, stirrups, crossbows and siege tactics that shaped armies from China to the Mediterranean. We explore the spread of gunpowder and the surprising innovations that followed in the wake of one of humanity’s deadliest pandemics.

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