Dear Reader,
today I want to introduce you to something special: A series on the Silk Road - as it was in reality, and how, in contrast to the in-game SilkroadOnline stands.
Let's start with the principles of a "simple" map of the Silk Road. In red are marked the places that seem so well (perhaps modified slightly) in the game:
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How you look , there are also the approximate ratio to the map finding of Silkroad Online. If these over each other, there are surprising similarities:
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Not everything is consistent, especially in Europe The developers have apparently been less trouble, but there are also certain areas of recognizable, but not directly on the same site (marked with green arrows).
Thus we see that in many places, especially in Asia match. Jangan is to Chang'an, a town very close to the beginning the Silk Road is located. Jangan (Chang'an town is also the beginning of the Chinese in SilkroadOnline). Chang'an is equivalent to Xi'an, it was also the first server in SilkroadOnline.
Here's something about the historical origination of Chang'an:
Chang'an was a city of Ancient China. It was originally located five kilometers northwest of present-day Xi'an as its capital, and served several dynasties, until her name under the Ming dynasty Xi'an has changed. The
Chang'an, which served the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC to 9 AD) as its capital, was in the scale of the time a world city. The city had the reign of the first Han emperor Gaozu about 120,000 inhabitants. By comparison, the largest cities in the Old World, Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Alexandria, then had 200,000 and 300,000 inhabitants.
After the embassy of the imperial officials Zhang Qian, in which he traveled to Central and Western Asia, Chang'an was a meeting point of the emerging China's Silk Road "gateway to the world."
your destruction in the Civil War (to 23 AD) sealed their fate. It was still chosen as the capital of Emperor Gengshi, but after his death (25 AD) chose his successor Guangwu to make the prosperous capital of Luoyang. His dynasty is known about Eastern Han Dynasty. Chang'an, now called the Western contributed capital, sank into insignificance, and had around 100, only 81 000 inhabitants.
The site of the Han period capital Chang'an since 1961 is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China.
One sees in the Middle Ages, the Silk Road to Böüte Jangan (Chang'an) was thus a major city, they could measure up to other European cities.
also Donwhang really existed, under the name of Dunhuang. We see here already the name of that because a very close link between reality and virtuality is.
And now some details about Dunhuang: Dunhuang
is an ancient oasis city on the Silk Road in Gansu Province in western China.
early as 111 BC, Dunhuang was founded by Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty. Because of its location along the ancient Silk Road, she played as the major Chinese commercial hub of this pathway an important role in the cultural and trade with the West. Thus, Buddhism spread starting from Dunhuang in China. In the year 366, the construction of Mogao Grottoes and started to the 14th Century continued.
Also in: Dunhang was a very important city on the edge of the Silk Road, but this was farther away than Jangan. These are
Mogao Grottoes very interesting, but very similar to this in some detail Donwhang.
Photos of Mogao Grottoes:
From her very detailed in the houses Donwhang remembering. Furthermore, see the caves also similar to the temple in Backak Donwhang, where they also the Buddhist monks take / priest. And precisely for this reason were these caves also built: namely, where Buddhism was the 15th Century practice.
Sovieln first to the cities and Donwhang Jangan and the general environment of the Silk Road.
Next time I will report on Chin'Tomb and Hotan, but furthermore also Tarim Basin / Taklamakan.
greetings foxnbk
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