PLANTS THAT TRAVEL THE ROAD / SOME PLANTS THAT COME ON THE SILK ROAD Cover Image

YOL KATEDEN BİTKİLER/ İPEK YOLUNU KATEDEREK GELEN BAZI BİTKİLER
PLANTS THAT TRAVEL THE ROAD / SOME PLANTS THAT COME ON THE SILK ROAD

Author(s): Ayşe Everest
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Agriculture, International relations/trade, Transport / Logistics
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Plants; Silk Road; Central Asia;

Summary/Abstract: How did the plants become transportable? Undoubtedly, this has occurred primarily with continental bridges, glacial events, and air movements. Like those of the brave, farming-merchant Sogdlar, whose curiosity and trade in distant lands point to us, they have been carried in bags and backpacks. This event occurred with domestication / breeding / hybrid studies in parallel with the need to eat. On the other hand, they were carried by the noble horses, which are the animals and priority animals of the people on the way. Understanding the connection of our country with the Silk Road may be based on knowing and knowing the Sogdian / Fergana Valley and Turfan / Tarim Basin and understanding the common plants that have come by crossing this road. Turkey, especially in Anatolia, close to the entrance of Central Asia where possible to find traces of this civilization civilized man.

  • Issue Year: 12/2020
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Range: 237-258
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Turkish