Sunday 8 November 2009

Question for November 8

What does this map depict?








8 comments:

PS said...

The Silk route

Ankur said...

Silk Routes?

Gaurav Kane said...

The silk routes between Asia, Europe and Africa

Nikhil said...

The ancient "Silk routes" or the trade routes between Asia and Europe. The red ones are the land ones, while the blue ones are the sea ones.

Kiran Vyakaranam said...

Silk Route...Samarkhand (northwest of India) is one of the junctions in the land route.

Rahul said...

My guess is that the map depicts the routes (mythical and real) of Marco Polo's legendary journey across the steppes to China and down to south and south east asia.

Dev said...

Ancient Trade routes...like the Silk Route (the red one)?

The Answer said...

Silk Route it is! Congrats to one and all. Good guess by Rahul, I went and checked the route taken by Marco Polo and it is strikingly similar though he didn't go to Africa at all.