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Introduction: A Thread Through Time Long before the modern age of global flights and shipping containers, there existed a magnificent web of trade routes that stitched together empires, continents, and cultures — the Silk Road. It was not a single road but a sprawling network that connected China to the Mediterranean, winding through Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, …