Overview
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What material was more important than silk for early trade along the Silk Road?
What primary sources does Dr. Miljana Radiojevic mention?
Dr. Radiojevic discusses carbon emission peaks. What is their hypothesis about what causes this? Later in the episode they come back to this topic. How do they plan to test their hypothesis?
We often like to think of history as a settled narrative, but as Dr. Radiojevic mentions there is a lot historians still do not know. What topics do they mention that more research needs to be done? Or which points are speculative?
- What other transfers besides metal were transferred along Eurasian routes?
- Based on the podcast give a brief biography of Cleopatra VII. What did you learn/ what information surprised you?
- How did the Roman historians describe Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic dynasty?
- How did Islamic historians describe Cleopatra VII?
- Why were the portrayals so different in the West and the Islamic world?