Month: February 2019

The ancient Silk Road was the shape of trade of much of the world for much of history, but it hasn’t been in recent centuries. Colonialism changed that. Starting in the 1400s Europeans started looking for ways to get around the Silk Road middlemen (mostly the Islamic world) who had been bringing them goods they … Continue reading The coming multi-polar world and the Silk Road order as a model

When you and I in the West were taught history, we were taught that all the important stuff started with the Greeks. Before that we learned about the Fertile Crescent and how urbanization and agriculture started there. Maybe we learned something about ancient Egypt and that some other civilizations existed, but they were foreign and … Continue reading Central Asia is where history’s at

There is an ancient myth in Central Asia, and one that is now known by the many cultures who have come into contact with it, the myth of Shambhala. You may know of it by the name Shangri-La; the Russian old believers knew of it as Belovoyde; the Hindus as Aryavartha (The Land of the … Continue reading The Myth of Shambhala